def METHOD_NAME(attr_string):
    """
    helper method to extract tag attributes, as a dict of un-escaped strings
    """
    attributes = {}
    for name, val in FIND_ATTRS.findall(attr_string):
        val = (
            val.replace("&lt;", "<")
            .replace("&gt;", ">")
            .replace("&quot;", '"')
            .replace("&amp;", "&")
        )
        attributes[name] = val
    return attributes