html.entities — Definitions of HTML general entities

Python documentation

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()

.

Added 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 HTML4 entity names to the Unicode code points.

html.entities.codepoint2name

A dictionary that maps Unicode code points to HTML4 entity names.

Footnotes