Escaped angle brackets are converted to < and > inside pre and code tags

[Alok Hota]

Take HTML data like the following:

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<pre>
#include &lt;iostream&gt;

std::cout &lt;&lt; "Hello, world" &lt;&lt; std::endl;
</pre>
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and

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<code>&lt;iostream&gt;</code>
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The angle brackets are significant here for C++ syntax. BeautifulSoup will convert these to "<iostream>" inside the HTML as if it was a tag, which of course it isn't. This leads to the text not being displayed at all in the browser.

[Alok Hota (ahota)]

Sorry, forgot to mention this occurs when running prettify(). Just doing a decode() works as expected.

[Alok Hota (ahota)]

Example doesn't exhibit the problem, and I may have found the issue in my full code. Sorry!