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Note that the trailing semicolon is included in the name (e.g. <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">'gt;'</span></code>), 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 <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">';'</span></code>. See also <a class="reference internal" href="html.html#html.unescape" title="html.unescape"><code class="xref py py-func docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">html.unescape()</span></code></a>.</p> <div class="versionadded"> <p><span class="versionmodified added">New in version 3.3.</span></p> </div> </dd></dl> <dl class="data"> <dt id="html.entities.entitydefs"> <code class="descclassname">html.entities.</code><code class="descname">entitydefs</code><a class="headerlink" href="#html.entities.entitydefs" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt> <dd><p>A dictionary mapping XHTML 1.0 entity definitions to their replacement text in ISO Latin-1.</p> </dd></dl> <dl class="data"> <dt id="html.entities.name2codepoint"> <code class="descclassname">html.entities.</code><code class="descname">name2codepoint</code><a class="headerlink" href="#html.entities.name2codepoint" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt> <dd><p>A dictionary that maps HTML entity names to the Unicode code points.</p> </dd></dl> <dl class="data"> <dt id="html.entities.codepoint2name"> <code class="descclassname">html.entities.</code><code class="descname">codepoint2name</code><a class="headerlink" href="#html.entities.codepoint2name" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt> <dd><p>A dictionary that maps Unicode code points to HTML entity names.</p> </dd></dl> <p class="rubric">Footnotes</p> <dl class="footnote brackets"> <dt class="label" id="id2"><span class="brackets"><a class="fn-backref" href="#id1">1</a></span></dt> <dd><p>See <a class="reference external" href="https://www.w3.org/TR/html5/syntax.html#named-character-references">https://www.w3.org/TR/html5/syntax.html#named-character-references</a></p> </dd> </dl> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="sphinxsidebar" role="navigation" aria-label="main navigation"> <div class="sphinxsidebarwrapper"> <h4>Previous topic</h4> <p class="topless"><a href="html.parser.html" title="previous chapter"><code class="xref py py-mod docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">html.parser</span></code> — Simple HTML and XHTML parser</a></p> <h4>Next topic</h4> <p class="topless"><a href="xml.html" title="next chapter">XML Processing Modules</a></p> <div role="note" aria-label="source link"> <h3>This Page</h3> <ul class="this-page-menu"> <li><a href="../bugs.html">Report a Bug</a></li> <li> <a href="https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/3.7/Doc/library/html.entities.rst" rel="nofollow">Show Source </a> </li> </ul> </div> </div> </div> <div class="clearer"></div> </div> <div class="related" role="navigation" aria-label="related navigation"> <h3>Navigation</h3> <ul> <li class="right" style="margin-right: 10px"> <a href="../genindex.html" title="General Index" >index</a></li> <li class="right" > <a href="../py-modindex.html" title="Python Module Index" >modules</a> |</li> <li class="right" > <a href="xml.html" title="XML Processing Modules" >next</a> |</li> <li class="right" > <a href="html.parser.html" title="html.parser — Simple HTML and XHTML parser" >previous</a> |</li> <li><img src="../_static/py.png" alt="" style="vertical-align: middle; margin-top: -1px"/></li> <li><a href="https://www.python.org/">Python</a> »</li> <li> <span class="language_switcher_placeholder">en</span> <span class="version_switcher_placeholder">3.7.4</span> <a href="../index.html">Documentation </a> » </li> <li class="nav-item nav-item-1"><a href="index.html" >The Python Standard Library</a> »</li> <li class="nav-item nav-item-2"><a href="markup.html" >Structured Markup Processing Tools</a> »</li> <li class="right"> <div class="inline-search" style="display: none" role="search"> <form class="inline-search" action="../search.html" method="get"> <input placeholder="Quick search" type="text" name="q" /> <input type="submit" value="Go" /> <input type="hidden" name="check_keywords" value="yes" /> <input type="hidden" name="area" value="default" /> </form> </div> <script type="text/javascript">$('.inline-search').show(0);</script> | </li> </ul> </div> <div class="footer"> © <a href="../copyright.html">Copyright</a> 2001-2019, Python Software Foundation. <br /> The Python Software Foundation is a non-profit corporation. <a href="https://www.python.org/psf/donations/">Please donate.</a> <br /> Last updated on Jul 13, 2019. <a href="../bugs.html">Found a bug</a>? <br /> Created using <a href="http://sphinx.pocoo.org/">Sphinx</a> 2.0.1. </div> </body> </html>