Unicode encoding in python [duplicate]

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Decode HTML entities in Python string?

I am using Python 2.7 and am fairly lost in unicode type. I looked up variety of help files and tutorials on it by I cannot get it actually working in the context I need. http://docs.python.org/howto/unicode.html

I have a library with names and it was saved decoded, ex. aaron's I need to encode the name into a user friendly manner Seems like basic answer to encoding

a ='aaron&#39;s,' unicode(a) a.encode('ascii', 'replace')

returns:

'aaron&#39;s,'

Which is not what I am looking for.

See - stackoverflow.com/questions/57708/… - stackoverflow.com/questions/701704/… — user2665694
– user2665694, Commented Sep 10, 2012 at 15:02

Community · Accepted Answer · 2017-05-23 12:03:18Z

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You are looking for HTML entity decoding, not Unicode (or codec) decoding.

See Decode HTML entities in Python string? for ways to do this.

edited May 23, 2017 at 12:03

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answered Sep 10, 2012 at 14:58

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