how can i change '>' to '>' ,and change '>' to '>'

Question

print u'&lt;'#how can i print '<'
print '>' #how can i print '&gt;'

thanks

Answer 1

[Obligatory "use a DOM to construct XML, in the name of all that is holy" post.]

Answer 2

You should use HTMLParser module to decode html:

>>> import HTMLParser
>>> h= HTMLParser.HTMLParser()
>>> h.unescape('alpha < β')
u'alpha < \u03b2'

To escape HTML, cgi module is fine:

>>> cgi.escape(u'<a>bá</a>').encode('ascii', 'xmlcharrefreplace')
'&lt;a&gt;b&#225;&lt;/a&gt;