19.2. html.entities — Definitions of HTML general entities
This module defines three dictionaries, name2codepoint, codepoint2name,
and entitydefs. entitydefs is used to provide the entitydefs
member of the 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).
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html.entities.entitydefs
- A dictionary mapping XHTML 1.0 entity definitions to their replacement text in
ISO Latin-1.
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html.entities.name2codepoint
- A dictionary that maps HTML entity names to the Unicode codepoints.
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html.entities.codepoint2name
- A dictionary that maps Unicode codepoints to HTML entity names.
