I used BeautifulSoup to handle XML files that I have collected through a REST

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Asked: May 14, 20262026-05-14T01:31:05+00:00 2026-05-14T01:31:05+00:00

I used BeautifulSoup to handle XML files that I have collected through a REST API.

The responses contain HTML code, but BeautifulSoup escapes all the HTML tags so it can be displayed nicely.

Unfortunately I need the HTML code.

How would I go on about transforming the escaped HTML into proper markup?

Help would be very much appreciated!

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Editorial Team · Answer 1 · 2026-05-14T01:31:06+00:00

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I think you want xml.sax.saxutils.unescape from the Python standard library.

E.g.:

>>> from xml.sax import saxutils as su
>>> s = '&lt;foo&gt;bar&lt;/foo&gt;'
>>> su.unescape(s)
'<foo>bar</foo>'

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