:mod:html.entities --- Definitions of HTML general entities

.. module:: html.entities :synopsis: Definitions of HTML general entities.

.. sectionauthor:: Fred L. Drake, Jr. [email protected]

Source code: :source:Lib/html/entities.py

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This module defines four dictionaries, :data:html5, :data:name2codepoint, :data:codepoint2name, and :data:entitydefs.

.. data:: html5

A dictionary that maps HTML5 named character references [#]_ to the equivalent 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 the semicolon: in this case the name is present with and without the ';'. See also :func:html.unescape.

.. versionadded:: 3.3

.. 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 code points.

.. data:: codepoint2name

A dictionary that maps Unicode code points to HTML entity names.

.. rubric:: Footnotes

.. [#] See https://www.w3.org/TR/html5/syntax.html#named-character-references