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If the optional flag <em>quote</em> is true, the characters (<code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">"</span></code>) and (<code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">'</span></code>) are also translated; this helps for inclusion in an HTML attribute value delimited by quotes, as in <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre"><a</span> <span class="pre">href="..."></span></code>.</p> <div class="versionadded"> <p><span class="versionmodified added">New in version 3.2.</span></p> </div> </dd></dl> <dl class="function"> <dt id="html.unescape"> <code class="descclassname">html.</code><code class="descname">unescape</code><span class="sig-paren">(</span><em>s</em><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#html.unescape" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt> <dd><p>Convert all named and numeric character references (e.g. <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">&gt;</span></code>, <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">&#62;</span></code>, <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">&#x3e;</span></code>) in the string <em>s</em> to the corresponding Unicode characters. 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