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Weird characters scraped
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With stdlib from Python:
import html


s = "<strong>Clamps P&amp;S Black 100</strong>"
text = html.unescape(s)

print(text)
Output:
<strong>Clamps P&S Black 100</strong>
But BeautifulSoup does it already. You should use this 3rd party library.
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Weird characters scraped - by samuelbachorik - Oct-01-2023, 11:20 AM
RE: Weird characters scraped - by SpongeB0B - Oct-28-2023, 03:27 PM
RE: Weird characters scraped - by snippsat - Oct-28-2023, 03:58 PM
RE: Weird characters scraped - by DeaD_EyE - Oct-29-2023, 02:36 PM

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