That is quite nifty implementation of reverse HTML escaping. But in python that could be done with much less work: import html print(html.unescape(foo)) A

That is quite nifty implementation of reverse HTML escaping. But in python that could be done with much less work: import html print(html.unescape(foo)) And the best part - you don't need to debug/update the (g)sub list every time you stumble upon new weird &whatever; too. And there are a lot of those out there: https://www.freeformatter.com/html-entities.html https://www.freeformatter.com/html-entities.html