title: Unescaping Characters in a JSON response string
body: <p>I made a JSON request that gives me a string that uses <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Unicode_characters" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Unicode character codes</a> that looks like:</p>
  
  <pre><code>s = "\u003Cp\u003E"
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>And I want to convert it to:</p>
  
  <pre><code>s = "&lt;p&gt;"
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>What's the best way to do this in Python?</p>
  
  <p>Note, this is the same question as <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4171201/unescaping-characters-in-a-string-with-ruby">this one</a>, only in Python except Ruby. I am also using the <a href="http://apidocs.posterous.com/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Posterous API</a>.</p>