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I am trying to decode entities using BeautifulSoup but with no luck.
from BeautifulSoup import BeautifulSoup
decoded = BeautifulSoup("<p> </p>",convertEntities=BeautifulSoup.HTML_ENTITIES)
print decoded
The output is not decoded at all. I found a lot of answers here that use this method.
Am I a doing something wrong?
I would like to use BeautifulSoup for this so please don’t bother telling me that the standard library has a method to decode entities.
You need to
print decoded.contents: