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diff --git a/Doc/library/html.entities.rst b/Doc/library/html.entities.rst new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..0b2efeb48c --- /dev/null +++ b/Doc/library/html.entities.rst @@ -0,0 +1,30 @@ +: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. |