Function unescape

Lib/xml/sax/saxutils.py:34–46

Unescape &, <, and > in a string of data. You can unescape other strings of data by passing a dictionary as the optional entities parameter. The keys and values must all be strings; each key will be replaced with its corresponding value.

(data, entities={})

    return data

def unescape(data, entities={}):
    """Unescape &, <, and > in a string of data.

    You can unescape other strings of data by passing a dictionary as
    the optional entities parameter.  The keys and values must all be
    strings; each key will be replaced with its corresponding value.
    """
    data = data.replace("&lt;", "<")
    data = data.replace("&gt;", ">")
    if entities:
        data = __dict_replace(data, entities)
    # must do ampersand last
    return data.replace("&amp;", "&")

def quoteattr(data, entities={}):
    """Escape and quote an attribute value.