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I have a parsed text what contains HTML versions of different symbols like quotation marks or dashes.

This is how one string looks like:

Introduction &#8211 First page&#8218s content

And I would like to achive this: 

Introduction - First page's content

Is there any library or common solution that changes the HTML entities in any string? Or I would need to write a function which replace the html to the proper string?

I already checked these answers, but I would rather need something that works with a simple Python string that contains html entities.

rihekopo
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html module doesn't require anything special from the string. It just works:

>>> import html
>>> html.unescape('Introduction &#8211 First page&#8218s content')
'Introduction – First page‚s content'
pythad
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Try 

print unicode(x)

or

print x.encode('ascii')

simo
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