code: def unescape_html(text):
      
      def fixup(m):
          text = m.group(0)
          if text[:2] == "&#":
              # character reference
              try:
                  if text[:3] == "&#x":
                      return unicode_char(int(text[3:-1], 16))
                  else:
                      return unicode_char(int(text[2:-1]))
              except ValueError:
                  pass
          else:
              # named entity
              try:
                  text = unicode_char(htmlentities.name2codepoint[text[1:-1]])
              except KeyError:
                  pass
          return text  # leave as is
      return re.sub(r"&#?\w+;", fixup, text)
docs: Removes HTML or XML character references and entities from a text string.
  
      @param text The HTML (or XML) source text.
      @return The plain text, as a Unicode string, if necessary.
  
      Source: http://effbot.org/zone/re-sub.htm#unescape-html