I have a string containing u0026#39;. I can use html.unescape to convert this back to a character.

But if I first split that string with split(','), suddenly it becomes \u0026#39;, and unescape no longer works. How can I split on a delimiter without introducing this problem, or reverse it without introducing new ones?

Please look at any proposed duplicates carefully, I found several that looked exactly right but didn’t answer my question.