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## Preliminaries


    

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import html


    

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## Create Text


    

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text = 'This item costs ¥400 or £4.'


    

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## Convert To String


    

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html.unescape(text)


    

    
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'This item costs ¥400 or £4.'

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## Convert To HTML Entities


    

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html.escape(text)


    

    
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'This item costs ¥400 or £4.'