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clarify the documentation status of unescape()
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>>> from HTMLParser import HTMLParser
>>> print HTMLParser().unescape('U.S. Adviser’s Blunt Memo on Iraq: Time'
...  'Time ‘to Go Home’')
U.S. Adviser’s Blunt Memo on Iraq: Time ‘to Go Home’

The function is undocumented in Python 2. It is fixed in Python 3.4+ : it is exposed as html.unescape() there .

>>> from HTMLParser import HTMLParser
>>> print HTMLParser().unescape('U.S. Adviser’s Blunt Memo on Iraq: Time ‘to Go Home’')
U.S. Adviser’s Blunt Memo on Iraq: Time ‘to Go Home’
>>> from HTMLParser import HTMLParser
>>> print HTMLParser().unescape('U.S. Adviser’s Blunt Memo on Iraq: '
...  'Time ‘to Go Home’')
U.S. Adviser’s Blunt Memo on Iraq: Time ‘to Go Home’

The function is undocumented in Python 2. It is fixed in Python 3.4+ : it is exposed as html.unescape() there .

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>>> from HTMLParser import HTMLParser
>>> print HTMLParser().unescape('U.S. Adviser’s Blunt Memo on Iraq: Time ‘to Go Home’')
U.S. Adviser’s Blunt Memo on Iraq: Time ‘to Go Home’
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