Decode chars like &apos into plaintext

Question

So, this is driving me nuts. How can I convert encoded characters like %apos to plaintext? Using Python 3.9.

What I Tried:

string = 'The guy blasts the other guy on 'Russia's Newsroom': 'Totally unfit' to be vice chancellor'

new_string = string.encode('utf-8', 'ignore')

print(new_string)

user_480982 · Answer

This has nothing to do with Unicode. It's HTML.

import html
print(html.unescape('''))

user_4541045 · Answer

You're looking for html.unescape()

https://docs.python.org/3/library/html.html#html.unescape

>>> html.unescape("'Russia's Newsroom'")
"'Russia's Newsroom'"

Decode chars like &apos into plaintext

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