it's instead of it's in python string

Question

My python string consists of ' instead of ' (single quotes). My current objective is to expand compound words like It's to It is, Haven't to Have not.

"This has been great for me. I've been on it for 2 weeks and in the last week I only had 3 headaches which went away with 2 Tylenol. I was having chronic daily headaches that wouldn't go away no matter what I took. I'm still a little sleepy during the day, but I know that will get better."

The above statement is an example of the sentence I've been trying to convert.

Can someone suggest a way to convert this into the string format?

Are you using python2? If so switch to python3 and then look at unicode handling. — match, Feb 20 '19 at 10:02
This has nothing to do with unicode, those are merely HTML entities, @match. That piece of text is HTML-encoded. HTML-decode it. — deceze, Feb 20 '19 at 10:09

Ora Aff · Accepted Answer · 2019-02-20T10:48:55.877

text = "This has been great for me. I&#039;ve been on it for 2 weeks and in the last week I only had 3 headaches which went away with 2 Tylenol. I was having chronic daily headaches that wouldn&#039;t go away no matter what I took. I&#039;m still a little sleepy during the day, but I know that will get better."
d_contraction = {"I'm":"I am","wouldn't":"would not","I've":"I have"}
updated_text = text.replace('&#039;', "'") 
print(updated_text)
for k,v in d_contraction.items():
    updated_text = updated_text.replace(k,v) 
print(updated_text)

Output:

This has been great for me. I've been on it for 2 weeks and in the last week I only had 3 headaches which went away with 2 Tylenol. I was having chronic daily headaches that wouldn't go away no matter what I took. I'm still a little sleepy during the day, but I know that will get better.

This has been great for me. I have been on it for 2 weeks and in the last week I only had 3 headaches which went away with 2 Tylenol. I was having chronic daily headaches that would not go away no matter what I took. I am still a little sleepy during the day, but I know that will get better.

The above code will work for the text you have provided. Basically, you will have to create a dictionary of all the possible contractions examples - they'll, ther're, etc.

it's instead of it's in python string

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