How do you htmlentities in Python - comp.lang.python

Message from discussion How do you htmlentities in Python
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As far as I know, there isn't a standard idiom to do this, but it's
still a one-liner. Untested, but I think this should work:

import re
from htmlentitydefs import name2codepoint
def htmlentitydecode(s):
    return re.sub('&(%s);' % '|'.join(name2codepoint), lambda m:
name2codepoint[m.group(1)], s)