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Answer 1

+3 A:

>>> import HTMLParser
>>> pars = HTMLParser.HTMLParser()
>>> pars.unescape('&copy; &euro;')
u'\xa9 \u20ac'
>>> print _
© €

vartec 2009-04-08 14:36:29

-1 because: "Deprecated since version 2.6"

webjunkie 2009-04-08 15:07:14

webjunkie: corrected the link.

vartec 2009-04-08 15:11:40

unescape is just an internal function of HTMLParser (and it's not documented in your link). however I could use the implementation.10x a lot

Alexandru 2009-04-08 15:54:22

@brtzsnr: true, that it's undocumented. Don't think that it's internal though, after all name is unescape not _unescape or __unescape.

vartec 2009-04-08 16:01:53

Answer 2

+1 A:

There is a function here that does it, as linked from the post Fred pointed out. Copied here to make things easier.

Credit to Fred Larson for linking to the other question on SO. Credit to dF for posting the link.

Benson 2009-04-08 18:09:06

Replace html entities with the corresponding utf-8 characters in Python 2.6