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

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

.. sectionauthor:: Fred L. Drake, Jr. <fdrake@acm.org>

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

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.

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