From escaped html -> to regular html? - Python
beautifulsoup, escaping, html, lxml, python
Solution
I think you want xml.sax.saxutils.unescape from the Python standard library.
E.g.:
>>> from xml.sax import saxutils as su
>>> s = '<foo>bar</foo>'
>>> su.unescape(s)
'<foo>bar</foo>'
Problem
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!