html.entities — Definitions of HTML general entities — Python 3.8.20 documentation (original) (raw)

Source code: Lib/html/entities.py

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

html.entities. html5¶

A dictionary that maps HTML5 named character references 1 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 html.unescape().

New in version 3.3.

html.entities. entitydefs¶

A dictionary mapping XHTML 1.0 entity definitions to their replacement text in ISO 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.

Footnotes

1

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