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-rw-r--r--Lib/sgmllib.py7
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/Lib/sgmllib.py b/Lib/sgmllib.py
index 1f8f3b836a..19580e2599 100644
--- a/Lib/sgmllib.py
+++ b/Lib/sgmllib.py
@@ -33,12 +33,11 @@ endtagopen = re.compile('</[<>a-zA-Z]')
endbracket = re.compile('[<>]')
special = re.compile('<![^<>]*>')
commentopen = re.compile('<!--')
-commentclose = re.compile('--[%s]*>' % string.whitespace)
+commentclose = re.compile(r'--\s*>')
tagfind = re.compile('[a-zA-Z][-.a-zA-Z0-9]*')
attrfind = re.compile(
- '[%s]*([a-zA-Z_][-.a-zA-Z_0-9]*)' % string.whitespace
- + ('([%s]*=[%s]*' % (string.whitespace, string.whitespace))
- + r'(\'[^\']*\'|"[^"]*"|[-a-zA-Z0-9./:;+*%?!&$\(\)_#=~]*))?')
+ r'\s*([a-zA-Z_][-.a-zA-Z_0-9]*)(\s*=\s*'
+ r'(\'[^\']*\'|"[^"]*"|[-a-zA-Z0-9./:;+*%?!&$\(\)_#=~]*))?')
# SGML parser base class -- find tags and call handler functions.