Decode HTML entities in a Python string

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I’m using Python 3 to access a web API. The response to the requests comes in the JSON standard and my problem is that one of the Strings comes encoded with HTML entities (specifically accentuation).

For example: 

"orientação-a-objetos"

Is there any parser return strings with solved HTML characters?

html python python-3.x htmlentities

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I found this one for Python 3.4+ :

>>> import html
>>> html.unescape('orientação-a-objetos')
'orientação-a-objetos'

In the case of Python 3 (versions prior to 3.4):

>>> import html.parser
>>> h = html.parser.HTMLParser()
>>> h.unescape('orientação-a-objetos')
'orientação-a-objetos'

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It is also possible to use Beautifulsoup, bs4 for Py3+ or Bs for Py3-, which in addition to converting the HTML encoding to ascii, also allows working with the HTML elements individually (if there is in the input string).

from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
s='orientação-a-objetos'
t = BeautifulSoup(s, 'html.parser')
print(t.get_text())

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