1 :mod:`html.entities` --- Definitions of HTML general entities 2 ============================================================= 3 4 .. module:: html.entities 5 :synopsis: Definitions of HTML general entities. 6 7 .. sectionauthor:: Fred L. Drake, Jr. <fdrake (a] acm.org> 8 9 **Source code:** :source:`Lib/html/entities.py` 10 11 -------------- 12 13 This module defines four dictionaries, :data:`html5`, 14 :data:`name2codepoint`, :data:`codepoint2name`, and :data:`entitydefs`. 15 16 17 .. data:: html5 18 19 A dictionary that maps HTML5 named character references [#]_ to the 20 equivalent Unicode character(s), e.g. ``html5['gt;'] == '>'``. 21 Note that the trailing semicolon is included in the name (e.g. ``'gt;'``), 22 however some of the names are accepted by the standard even without the 23 semicolon: in this case the name is present with and without the ``';'``. 24 See also :func:`html.unescape`. 25 26 .. versionadded:: 3.3 27 28 29 .. data:: entitydefs 30 31 A dictionary mapping XHTML 1.0 entity definitions to their replacement text in 32 ISO Latin-1. 33 34 35 .. data:: name2codepoint 36 37 A dictionary that maps HTML entity names to the Unicode code points. 38 39 40 .. data:: codepoint2name 41 42 A dictionary that maps Unicode code points to HTML entity names. 43 44 45 .. rubric:: Footnotes 46 47 .. [#] See https://www.w3.org/TR/html5/syntax.html#named-character-references 48
