Change & # 39 to a regular character

Question

I am having trouble displaying the contents of my program:

#! /usr/bin/python import urllib import re url = "http://yahoo.com" pattern = '''<span class="medium item-label".*?>(.*)</span>''' website = urllib.urlopen(url) pageContent = website.read() result = re.findall(pattern, pageContent) for record in result: print record 

exit:

 Masked teen killed by dad First look in 'Hotel of Doom' Ex-NFL QB's sad condition Reporter ignores warning Romney's low bar for debates 

So the question is what should I include in my code to convert & # 39 to characters

Answer 1

In Python2:

 In [16]: text = 'Ex-NFL QB's sad condition' In [17]: import HTMLParser In [18]: parser = HTMLParser.HTMLParser() In [19]: parser.unescape(text) Out[19]: u"Ex-NFL QB sad condition" 

In Python3:

 import html.parser as htmlparser parser = htmlparser.HTMLParser() parser.unescape(text) 

Answer 2

in javascript:

  text = text.replace(/'/g,"'");