20.3.html.entities — Definitions of HTML general entities¶

Source code:Lib/html/entities.py

This module defines four dictionaries,html5,name2codepoint,codepoint2name, andentitydefs.

html.entities.html5¶

A dictionary that maps HTML5 named character references[1] to theequivalent Unicode character(s), e.g.html5['gt;']=='>'.Note that the trailing semicolon is included in the name (e.g.'gt;'),however some of the names are accepted by the standard even without thesemicolon: in this case the name is present with and without the';'.

New in version 3.3.

html.entities.entitydefs¶

A dictionary mapping XHTML 1.0 entity definitions to their replacement text inISO Latin-1.

html.entities.name2codepoint¶

A dictionary that maps HTML entity names to the Unicode codepoints.

html.entities.codepoint2name¶

A dictionary that maps Unicode codepoints to HTML entity names.

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