Change &#39 into normal character

Question

I'm having trouble displaying content, my program:

#! /usr/bin/python

import urllib
import re

url = "http://yahoo.com"
pattern = '''<span class="medium item-label".*?>(.*)</span>'''

website = urllib.urlopen(url)
pageContent = website.read()
result = re.findall(pattern, pageContent)

for record in result:
    print record

output:

Masked teen killed by dad
First look in 'Hotel of Doom'
Ex-NFL QB's sad condition
Reporter ignores warning
Romney's low bar for debates

So the question is what should I include in my code in order to transform &#39 into characters

Answer 1

The solution for Python 3,

import html
html.unescape(text)