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How to unescape special characters from BeautifulSoup output?

I am facing issues with the special characters like ° and ® which represent the degree Fahrenheit sign and the registered sign,

when i print the string the contains the special characters, it gives output like this:

Preheat oven to 350° F
Welcome to Lorem Ipsum Inc®

Is there a way I can output the exact characters and not their codes? Please let me know.

Solution 
  • $ python -c'from BeautifulSoup import BeautifulSoup
> print BeautifulSoup("""<html>Preheat oven to 350&deg; F
> Welcome to Lorem Ipsum Inc&reg;""",
> convertEntities=BeautifulSoup.HTML_ENTITIES).contents[0].string'
Preheat oven to 350° F
Welcome to Lorem Ipsum Inc®