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>"

Alireza Afzal Aghaei · Accepted Answer · 2016-08-29 09:06:35Z

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use replace:

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

answered Aug 29, 2016 at 9:06

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@E.Tarrent if you want decode html entities see: stackoverflow.com/questions/2087370/…

Thank you.This is what I want