Just 3 lines of code in both Python 2 and Python 3.

Python 2

from HTMLParser import HTMLParser  
from xml.sax.saxutils import escape  

xml_str = escape(HTMLParser().unescape(html_str))

Python 3

Python 3.3 or older

from html.parser import HTMLParser  
from xml.sax.saxutils import escape  

xml_str = escape(HTMLParser().unescape(html_str))

Pytho 3.4+

import html  
from xml.sax.saxutils import escape  

xml_str = escape(html.unescape(html_str))

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