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Re:An OCR cliche: Into his/her anus (2009) by jwilk on Sunday November 04, 2018 @03:12PM (#18377849)
urllib.parse.unquote() is unrelated to HTML. It undoes URL-encoding:

https://docs.python.org/3/library/urllib.parse.html#urllib.p...

In Python ≥ 3.4, you can use html.unescape() to decode HTML entities:

https://docs.python.org/3/library/html.html#html.unescape

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Re:An OCR cliche: Into his/her anus (2009) by dotancohen on Monday November 05, 2018 @06:51AM (#18381574)
You are 100% correct. I mixed the two encodings up. Thanks.
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