19.3. html.entities
— Definitions of HTML general entities¶
Source code: Lib/html/entities.py
This module defines three dictionaries, name2codepoint
, codepoint2name
,
and entitydefs
. entitydefs
is used to provide the entitydefs
attribute of the html.parser.HTMLParser
class. The definition provided
here contains all the entities defined by XHTML 1.0 that can be handled using
simple textual substitution in the Latin-1 character set (ISO-8859-1).
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html.entities.
entitydefs
¶ A dictionary mapping XHTML 1.0 entity definitions to their replacement text in ISO Latin-1.
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html.entities.
name2codepoint
¶ A dictionary that maps HTML entity names to the Unicode codepoints.
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html.entities.
codepoint2name
¶ A dictionary that maps Unicode codepoints to HTML entity names.