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In the last lesson,

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we managed to get our API to work and we got back some live data.

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But when we ran it,

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we saw that some of the texts that we were getting back was formatted really

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strangely with these pound signs and ampersands,

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and it's not the actual text that we see.

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So what's happening here? Well,

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what we're actually seeing here are called HTML entities,

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and there are a way of replacing certain characters in HTML so that it doesn't

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get confused with HTML code. So for example,

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the less than symbol could be a part of HTML code.

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And instead of using that, we have to use the

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< and then semicolon.

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So if we look down this table,

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we can actually see this " actually stands for a double quotation mark.

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And that would make sense cause it's saying "Mario Kart

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64"

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and this #039,

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if we look up in this list, is actually a single quotation mark.

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And that would make sense as well, cause it would be Stalin's death.

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So how do we get hold of the actual human readable text? Well,

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we can use this tool called the free formatter to

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unescape the HTML results that we're getting back from our API.

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I've copied and pasted this part we've got here.

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And if I go ahead and click on unescape,

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you can see that it formats it into the original human readable format

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and now it says in "Mario Kart 64" Waluigi is a playable character.

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And if I paste the cold war ended with Joseph Stalin, blah, blah, blah,

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death and I click unescape, then you can see 

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it says the Cold War ended with Joseph Stalin's death and it replaces that with

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an apostrophe. Now,

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essentially we know what to Google and that's kind of the first step towards

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solving any problem.

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So if you Google for escaping HTML entities in Python,

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then the first result we get in Stack Overflow gives us the answer.

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We have to import the HTML module and use one of the methods in that module

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called unescape in order to unescape the text that we're getting back.

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The part where we're interested in this is in our quiz brain,

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because that's the part what we format it into our user answer.

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Let's change the question

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text to be equal to the self.current_question.text,

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so this part that we have here

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which is being put into our input and we can use this q_text instead.

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But instead of using just the text that we get back from the API,

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we're going to import the HTML module.

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Yeah.

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And we're going to use the method inside this HTML module called unescape

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to unescape this string that we get from the API.

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And now if I run this code again, you can see that this time,

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no matter what is inside the string, say an apostrophe in this case or a double

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quote in this case, they're all being formatted correctly.

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There you have it.

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We started off with some strange characters and after a bit of Googling around,

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we found the solution to turn them into human readable text. Aas a programmer,

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this is a skill that you have to really hone.

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This is something that is going to take you to the next level

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to this intermediate++ level.

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You have to find out solutions to your own problems,

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and Google is your best friend.