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Solve the following problem using Python, implementing the functions described below, one line at a time
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Description:
 def handle_entityref(self, name):
 """Process a general entity reference of the form "&name;". Transform to text whenever possible."""

        char_code = html_entities.name2codepoint.get(name, None)
        if char_code is not None:
            try:
                self.result += unichr(char_code).encode("utf-8")
            except:
                return