#15114: the strict mode and argument of HTMLParser, HTMLParser.error, and the HTMLParserError exception have been removed.
diff --git a/Doc/library/html.parser.rst b/Doc/library/html.parser.rst
index 44b7d6e..67ae139 100644
--- a/Doc/library/html.parser.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/html.parser.rst
@@ -16,9 +16,9 @@
This module defines a class :class:`HTMLParser` which serves as the basis for
parsing text files formatted in HTML (HyperText Mark-up Language) and XHTML.
-.. class:: HTMLParser(strict=False, *, convert_charrefs=False)
+.. class:: HTMLParser(*, convert_charrefs=False)
- Create a parser instance.
+ Create a parser instance able to parse invalid markup.
If *convert_charrefs* is ``True`` (default: ``False``), all character
references (except the ones in ``script``/``style`` elements) are
@@ -26,12 +26,6 @@
The use of ``convert_charrefs=True`` is encouraged and will become
the default in Python 3.5.
- If *strict* is ``False`` (the default), the parser will accept and parse
- invalid markup. If *strict* is ``True`` the parser will raise an
- :exc:`~html.parser.HTMLParseError` exception instead [#]_ when it's not
- able to parse the markup. The use of ``strict=True`` is discouraged and
- the *strict* argument is deprecated.
-
An :class:`.HTMLParser` instance is fed HTML data and calls handler methods
when start tags, end tags, text, comments, and other markup elements are
encountered. The user should subclass :class:`.HTMLParser` and override its
@@ -40,32 +34,9 @@
This parser does not check that end tags match start tags or call the end-tag
handler for elements which are closed implicitly by closing an outer element.
- .. versionchanged:: 3.2
- *strict* argument added.
-
- .. deprecated-removed:: 3.3 3.5
- The *strict* argument and the strict mode have been deprecated.
- The parser is now able to accept and parse invalid markup too.
-
.. versionchanged:: 3.4
*convert_charrefs* keyword argument added.
-An exception is defined as well:
-
-
-.. exception:: HTMLParseError
-
- Exception raised by the :class:`HTMLParser` class when it encounters an error
- while parsing and *strict* is ``True``. This exception provides three
- attributes: :attr:`msg` is a brief message explaining the error,
- :attr:`lineno` is the number of the line on which the broken construct was
- detected, and :attr:`offset` is the number of characters into the line at
- which the construct starts.
-
- .. deprecated-removed:: 3.3 3.5
- This exception has been deprecated because it's never raised by the parser
- (when the default non-strict mode is used).
-
Example HTML Parser Application
-------------------------------
@@ -246,8 +217,7 @@
The *data* parameter will be the entire contents of the declaration inside
the ``<![...]>`` markup. It is sometimes useful to be overridden by a
- derived class. The base class implementation raises an :exc:`HTMLParseError`
- when *strict* is ``True``.
+ derived class. The base class implementation does nothing.
.. _htmlparser-examples:
@@ -358,9 +328,3 @@
Data : tag soup
End tag : p
End tag : a
-
-.. rubric:: Footnotes
-
-.. [#] For backward compatibility reasons *strict* mode does not raise
- exceptions for all non-compliant HTML. That is, some invalid HTML
- is tolerated even in *strict* mode.