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  r87542 | senthil.kumaran | 2010-12-28 23:55:16 +0800 (Tue, 28 Dec 2010) | 3 lines

  Fix Issue10759 - html.parser.unescape() fails on HTML entities with incorrect syntax
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diff --git a/Lib/html/parser.py b/Lib/html/parser.py
index c2c7f6b..3f68e18 100644
--- a/Lib/html/parser.py
+++ b/Lib/html/parser.py
@@ -367,13 +367,16 @@
             return s
         def replaceEntities(s):
             s = s.groups()[0]
-            if s[0] == "#":
-                s = s[1:]
-                if s[0] in ['x','X']:
-                    c = int(s[1:], 16)
-                else:
-                    c = int(s)
-                return chr(c)
+            try:
+                if s[0] == "#":
+                    s = s[1:]
+                    if s[0] in ['x','X']:
+                        c = int(s[1:], 16)
+                    else:
+                        c = int(s)
+                    return chr(c)
+            except ValueError:
+                return '&#'+ s +';'
             else:
                 # Cannot use name2codepoint directly, because HTMLParser
                 # supports apos, which is not part of HTML 4
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_htmlparser.py b/Lib/test/test_htmlparser.py
index e982218..661d41d 100755
--- a/Lib/test/test_htmlparser.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_htmlparser.py
@@ -319,6 +319,10 @@
         self._run_check("<html foo='&euro;&amp;&#97;&#x61;&unsupported;'>", [
                 ("starttag", "html", [("foo", "\u20AC&aa&unsupported;")])
                 ])
+    def test_unescape_function(self):
+        p = html.parser.HTMLParser()
+        self.assertEqual(p.unescape('&#bad;'),'&#bad;')
+        self.assertEqual(p.unescape('&#0038;'),'&')
 
 
 def test_main():