| :mod:`html.entities` --- Definitions of HTML general entities |
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| .. module:: html.entities |
| :synopsis: Definitions of HTML general entities. |
| .. sectionauthor:: Fred L. Drake, Jr. <fdrake@acm.org> |
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| **Source code:** :source:`Lib/html/entities.py` |
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| This module defines three dictionaries, ``name2codepoint``, ``codepoint2name``, |
| and ``entitydefs``. ``entitydefs`` is used to provide the :attr:`entitydefs` |
| attribute 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). |
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| .. data:: entitydefs |
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| A dictionary mapping XHTML 1.0 entity definitions to their replacement text in |
| ISO Latin-1. |
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| .. data:: name2codepoint |
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| A dictionary that maps HTML entity names to the Unicode codepoints. |
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| .. data:: codepoint2name |
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| A dictionary that maps Unicode codepoints to HTML entity names. |