Doc/library/html.entities.rst

:mod:`html.entities` --- Definitions of HTML general entities
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.. module:: htmlentitydefs
   :synopsis: Old name for the html.entities module.

.. module:: html.entities
   :synopsis: Definitions of HTML general entities.
.. sectionauthor:: Fred L. Drake, Jr. <fdrake@acm.org>

.. note::
   The :mod:`htmlentitydefs` module has been renamed to :mod:`html.entities` in
   Python 3.0.  It is importable under both names in Python 2.6 and the rest of
   the 2.x series.


This module defines three dictionaries, ``name2codepoint``, ``codepoint2name``,
and ``entitydefs``. ``entitydefs`` is used by the :mod:`htmllib` module to
provide the :attr:`entitydefs` member of the :class:`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).


.. data:: entitydefs

   A dictionary mapping XHTML 1.0 entity definitions to their replacement text in
   ISO Latin-1.


.. data:: name2codepoint

   A dictionary that maps HTML entity names to the Unicode codepoints.

   .. versionadded:: 2.3


.. data:: codepoint2name

   A dictionary that maps Unicode codepoints to HTML entity names.

   .. versionadded:: 2.3