Decode html, or is it unicode, how?

[Guest]

Hi All,
I've done a bunch of searching in google and in python's help, but,
I haven't found any function to decode a string like:
Refresh! (ihenvyr)
In to plain english.
I'd also looked for the urldecode function in urllib, but that had been
deprecated.
If anyone here can give me a hand, I'd aprishiate it; it's probably very
simple, but...

Thx,

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[Ben C]

Hi All,
I've done a bunch of searching in google and in python's help, but,
I haven't found any function to decode a string like:
Refresh! (ihenvyr)
In to plain english.
[...]

I needed to do that the other day, and did it like this:

def decode(line):
pat = re.compile(r'&#(\d+);')
def sub(mo):
return unichr(int(mo.group(1)))
return pat.sub(sub, unicode(line))

there may well be a better way though.