Converting html entities into their values in python

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Published on 2010-05-02T23:26:42Z Indexed on 2010/05/02 23:27 UTC
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I use this regex on some input,

[^a-zA-Z0-9@#]

However this ends up removing lots of html special characters within the input, such as

227;, #1606;, #1588; (i had to remove the & prefix so that it wouldn't show up as the actual value..)

is there a way that I can convert them to their values so that it will satisfy the regexp expression? I also have no idea why the text decided to be so big.

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