8.4 htmlentitydefs -- Definitions of HTML general entities
This module defines three dictionaries, name2codepoint,
codepoint2name, and entitydefs. entitydefs is
used by the htmllib module to provide the
entitydefs member of the 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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A dictionary mapping XHTML 1.0 entity definitions to their
replacement text in ISO Latin-1.
- A dictionary that maps HTML entity names to the Unicode codepoints. New in version 2.3.
- A dictionary that maps Unicode codepoints to HTML entity names. New in version 2.3.
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Release 2.5, documentation updated on 19th September, 2006.