title: How can I replace or remove HTML entities like "&nbsp;" using BeautifulSoup 4
body: <p>I am processing HTML using Python and the BeautifulSoup 4 library and I can't find an obvious way to replace <code>&amp;nbsp;</code> with a space.  Instead it seems to be converted to a Unicode non-breaking space character.</p>
  
  <p>Am I missing something obvious?  What is the best way to replace &amp;nbsp; with a normal space using BeautifulSoup?</p>
  
  <p>Edit to add that I am using the latest version, BeautifulSoup 4, so the <code>convertEntities=BeautifulSoup.HTML_ENTITIES</code> option in Beautiful Soup 3 isn't available.</p>