How to Fix AttributeError: ‘htmlparser’ object has no attribute ‘unescape’

AttributeError: ‘htmlparser’ object has no attribute ‘unescape’ error occurs because HTMLParser.unescape was deprecated and removed in Python 3.9.

To fix this error, here are three solutions:

  1. Upgrade setuptools
  2. Upgrade pip
  3. Using HTML module

Why does the error occur?

  1. Changes in Python standard library (Changes in Python 3.9)
  2. Misuse of the HTMLParser class
  3. Alternative ways to unescape HTML entities
  4. Version mismatch
  5. Outdated code or libraries

How to fix the error?

Solution 1: Upgrading the setuptools package

pip install --upgrade setuptools

Solution 2: Upgrading the pip

pip install --upgrade pip

Solution 3: Using the HTML module

If you are looking to use the ‘unescape’ function to decode HTML entities, you should use it from the html module.

import html

escaped_string = "Hello & World"
unescaped_string = html.unescape(escaped_string)
print(unescaped_string)

Output

Hello & World

That’s it!

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