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Asked: 2026-06-11T05:15:58+00:00

Possible Duplicate: Convert XML/HTML Entities into Unicode String in Python Decode HTML entities in

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Convert XML/HTML Entities into Unicode String in Python
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's,'
unicode(a)
a.encode('ascii', 'replace')

returns:

'aaron's,'

Which is not what I am looking for.

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  1. Editorial Team

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

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

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