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DEV.to comment script mangles HTML entities, fix applied

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A developer discovered a bug in their Python script, reply_comments.py, which processes comments from DEV.to articles. The script's HTML stripping function was incorrectly leaving HTML entities like '<', '>', and '&' unescaped, leading to garbled text in the drafted replies. This issue was particularly problematic for comments containing code snippets or special characters, which the developer had been mentally auto-correcting. The fix involves using Python's `html.unescape` function after stripping HTML tags to correctly render these entities. AI

IMPACT Minimal impact; a specific bug fix for a personal script processing web content.

RANK_REASON The cluster describes a bug fix in a personal script for processing web content, not a major industry event.

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DEV.to comment script mangles HTML entities, fix applied

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  1. dev.to — MCP tag TIER_1 English(EN) · Enjoy Kumawat ·

    "My Comment-Reply Pipeline Was Feeding Me Garbled HTML Entities Instead of the Actual Comment"

    <p>I have a small script, <code>reply_comments.py</code>, that pulls unanswered comments off my DEV.to articles and drafts replies to a markdown file so I can paste them in by hand. The API doesn't let a normal account post comments (that's its own bug I've written about before),…

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