Decode HTML entities in Python string?

Question

I\'m parsing some HTML with Beautiful Soup 3, but it contains HTML entities which Beautiful Soup 3 doesn\'t automatically decode for me:

>>> from Be         


        

Answer 1

You can use replace_entities from w3lib.html library

In [202]: from w3lib.html import replace_entities

In [203]: replace_entities("£682m")
Out[203]: u'\xa3682m'

In [204]: print replace_entities("£682m")
£682m