So, this is driving me nuts. How can I convert encoded characters like %apos to plaintext? Using Python 3.9.

What I Tried:

string = 'The guy blasts the other guy on 'Russia's Newsroom': 'Totally unfit' to be vice chancellor'

new_string = string.encode('utf-8', 'ignore')

print(new_string)

CodePudding user response：

This has nothing to do with Unicode. It's HTML.

import html
print(html.unescape('''))

CodePudding user response：

You're looking for html.unescape()

https://docs.python.org/3/library/html.html#html.unescape

>>> html.unescape("'Russia's Newsroom'")
"'Russia's Newsroom'"