How do you htmlentities in Python

[Cameron Laird]

In article <1180965792.757685.132580 at q75g2000hsh.googlegroups.com>,
Adam Atlas  <adam at atlas.st> wrote:
>As far as I know, there isn't a standard idiom to do this, but it's
>still a one-liner. Untested, but I think this should work:
>
>import re
>from htmlentitydefs import name2codepoint
>def htmlentitydecode(s):
>    return re.sub('&(%s);' % '|'.join(name2codepoint), lambda m:
>name2codepoint[m.group(1)], s)
>

How strange that this doesn't appear in the Cookbook!  I'm
curious about how others think:  does such an item better 
belong in the Cookbook, or the Wiki?