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 references1 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';'.See alsohtml.unescape().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 code points.
html.entities.codepoint2name¶A dictionary that maps Unicode code points to HTML entity names.
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