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html.unescape is missing

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#247 opened on Oct 25, 2016

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Description

Using future 0.15.2 in Python 2.7:

>>> from html import unescape
*** ImportError: cannot import name unescape

Using plain Python 3.4 it works. The function was introduced in Python 3.4, see documentation.

Please add it.

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Implement html.unescape for Python 2.7. Use the existing html.parser.HTMLParser.unescape method or create a mapping of HTML entities to characters.
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python
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backendtooling
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Python 2.7future library
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