python3.4 How to decode string to what I want

Question

I get some string from web use python3.4. Here is string I get:

str="&#60lily&#62"

How to get this result?

str="<lily>"

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Aug 29 '16 at 09:06

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use replace:

str="&#60lily&#62"
str.replace("&#60","<").replace("&#62",">")

answered Aug 29 '16 at 09:06

@E.Tarrent if you want decode html entities see: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2087370/decode-html-entities-in-python-string – Alireza Afzal Aghaei Aug 29 '16 at 09:11
Thank you.This is what I want – E.Tarrent Aug 29 '16 at 09:14

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