For some reasons BeautifulSouf does not convert entities with convertEntities=["xml","html"], use convertEntities=BeautifulSoup.ALL_ENTITIES instead.
def get_among(dico,key,allowed,default):
res = dico.get(key, None)
if not res or res not in allowed:
return default
else:
return res
def get_int(dico, key, default):
try:
return int(dico.get(key, default))
except ValueError:
return default