A simple script to obscure an email address with HTML entities.

encode_email.py

#!/usr/bin/env python2.7


from random import randint


addr = "[email protected]"


def ascii_to_html_entity(char):
    """
    Convert a ASCII-character to its corresponding HTML entity.
    char -- The character to convert.
    """
    return "&#{};".format(hex(ord(char))[1:] if randint(0, 1) == 1 else str(ord(char)))


def email_link(addr):
    """
    Construct a HTML email link for the given address with the
    characters of the address replaced by HTML entities.
    addr -- The address for the link.
    """
    addr_encoded = "".join(( ascii_to_html_entity(char) for char in addr ))
    return "".join([ '<a href="', "".join(( ascii_to_html_entity(char) for char in "mailto" )), ':', addr_encoded, '">', addr_encoded, '</a>' ])


print email_link(addr)