| Georg Brandl | 9087b7f | 2008-05-18 07:53:01 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1 | :mod:`html.entities` --- Definitions of HTML general entities |
| 2 | ============================================================= |
| 3 | |
| 4 | .. module:: html.entities |
| 5 | :synopsis: Definitions of HTML general entities. |
| 6 | .. sectionauthor:: Fred L. Drake, Jr. <fdrake@acm.org> |
| 7 | |
| 8 | |
| 9 | This module defines three dictionaries, ``name2codepoint``, ``codepoint2name``, |
| 10 | and ``entitydefs``. ``entitydefs`` is used by the :mod:`htmllib` module to |
| 11 | provide the :attr:`entitydefs` member of the :class:`html.parser.HTMLParser` |
| 12 | class. The definition provided here contains all the entities defined by XHTML |
| 13 | 1.0 that can be handled using simple textual substitution in the Latin-1 |
| 14 | character set (ISO-8859-1). |
| 15 | |
| 16 | |
| 17 | .. data:: entitydefs |
| 18 | |
| 19 | A dictionary mapping XHTML 1.0 entity definitions to their replacement text in |
| 20 | ISO Latin-1. |
| 21 | |
| 22 | |
| 23 | .. data:: name2codepoint |
| 24 | |
| 25 | A dictionary that maps HTML entity names to the Unicode codepoints. |
| 26 | |
| 27 | |
| 28 | .. data:: codepoint2name |
| 29 | |
| 30 | A dictionary that maps Unicode codepoints to HTML entity names. |