unescape()

Unescape HTML entities in a string.

Implementation

Args: string: The escaped HTML (None→""). Returns: An unescaped string, reversing decimal entities for ' and `.

Example

unescape("abc<> &"'`efg")"

Expected output: '"abc<> &"'`efg'

Source Code

                        def unescape(string: Any) -> str:
    if string is None:
        return ""
    s = str(string)
    # Replace decimal entities first, then &amp;
    s = s.replace("&#39;", "'")
    s = s.replace("&#96;", "`")
    s = s.replace("&quot;", '"')
    s = s.replace("&lt;", "<")
    s = s.replace("&gt;", ">")
    s = s.replace("&amp;", "&")
    return s
                    