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r63438 | georg.brandl | 2008-05-17 23:54:03 +0200 (Sat, 17 May 2008) | 3 lines
Rename html.parser file, and split html.entities from htmllib
to ease removal of the latter in Py3k.
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+:mod:`html.entities` --- Definitions of HTML general entities
+=============================================================
+
+.. module:: html.entities
+ :synopsis: Definitions of HTML general entities.
+.. sectionauthor:: Fred L. Drake, Jr. <fdrake@acm.org>
+
+
+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:`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).
+
+
+.. 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.
+
+
+.. data:: codepoint2name
+
+ A dictionary that maps Unicode codepoints to HTML entity names.