Entry created via API displays raw HTML

What it's done is it's escaped your HTML. Every < replaced with &lt; for example. You can write a second Python script to load the entries and unescape them or you can do it with Perl. This Perl script should do it (though I claim no warranty since I just hacked it together):

use strict;
use lib ('./lib', './extlib');
use MT;
use MT::Entry;
MT->instance();

my @entries = MT::Entry->load();

foreach (@entries) {

	my $text = $_->text();

	$text =~ s/&lt;/</;

	$text =~ s/&gt;/>/;

	$_->text($text);

	$_->save();

}

Here is some python code to parse XML spat out by eventbrite and post an event to movable type, thanks for the help!

I had to modify the PyMT library by adding dateCreated to the appropriate class.

from xml.dom import minidom
from datetime import *
from PyMT import *

xmldoc = minidom.parse('eventbrite.rss')
events = xmldoc.firstChild
mt = PyMT("http://mt-install/mt/mt-xmlrpc.cgi", "user", "pass")

def postevent(eventNum):
myNum = (eventNum * 2) + 1
title = events.childNodes[myNum].getElementsByTagName('title')[0].firstChild.toxml("utf-8")
converted = datetime.strptime(events.childNodes[myNum].getElementsByTagName('start_date')[0].firstChild.toxml("utf-8"), "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S")
description = events.childNodes[myNum].getElementsByTagName('description')[0].firstChild.toxml("utf-8")
description = description.replace("<", " description = description.replace(">", ">")
description = description.replace(""", "\"")
description = description.replace("&", "&")
url = events.childNodes[myNum].getElementsByTagName('url')[0].firstChild.toxml("utf-8")
mydesc = '\n\n'.join ([description, url])
mytime = converted.strftime("%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S")
mt.newPost(2, {'title':title, 'description':mydesc, 'categories':[4], 'dateCreated':mytime}, 1)

postevent(0)