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Georg Brandl9087b7f2008-05-18 07:53:01 +00001:mod:`html.entities` --- Definitions of HTML general entities
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4.. module:: html.entities
5 :synopsis: Definitions of HTML general entities.
6.. sectionauthor:: Fred L. Drake, Jr. <fdrake@acm.org>
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9This module defines three dictionaries, ``name2codepoint``, ``codepoint2name``,
Georg Brandl877b10a2008-06-01 21:25:55 +000010and ``entitydefs``. ``entitydefs`` is used to provide the :attr:`entitydefs`
11member of the :class:`html.parser.HTMLParser` class. The definition provided
12here contains all the entities defined by XHTML 1.0 that can be handled using
13simple textual substitution in the Latin-1 character set (ISO-8859-1).
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16.. data:: entitydefs
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18 A dictionary mapping XHTML 1.0 entity definitions to their replacement text in
19 ISO Latin-1.
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22.. data:: name2codepoint
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24 A dictionary that maps HTML entity names to the Unicode codepoints.
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27.. data:: codepoint2name
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29 A dictionary that maps Unicode codepoints to HTML entity names.