decoding XML-ified special chars such as "

Tue Jul 30 17:45:09 EDT 2002

    chris> from xml.sax.saxutils import escape
    chris> data = escape(orig_data)

That goes the wrong way.  I think the OP wanted to go from '"' to '"',
not the other way around.

    chris> ... you might get by using urllib.unquote(data)

That's for unquoting stuff that's been escape for inclusion into URLs, also
not what the OP asked for.

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decoding XML-ified special chars such as &quot;