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The definition provided here contains all the entities defined by XHTML 1.0 that can be handled using simple textual substitution in the Latin-1 character set (ISO-8859-1).</p> <dl class="data"> <dt id="html.entities.entitydefs"> <tt class="descclassname">html.entities.</tt><tt class="descname">entitydefs</tt><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"> <tt class="descclassname">html.entities.</tt><tt class="descname">name2codepoint</tt><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 codepoints.</p> </dd></dl> <dl class="data"> <dt id="html.entities.codepoint2name"> <tt class="descclassname">html.entities.</tt><tt class="descname">codepoint2name</tt><a class="headerlink" href="#html.entities.codepoint2name" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt> <dd><p>A dictionary that maps Unicode codepoints to HTML entity names.</p> </dd></dl> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="sphinxsidebar"> <div class="sphinxsidebarwrapper"> <h4>Previous topic</h4> <p class="topless"><a href="html.parser.html" title="previous chapter">19.2. <tt class="docutils literal docutils literal"><span class="pre">html.parser</span></tt> — Simple HTML and XHTML parser</a></p> <h4>Next topic</h4> <p class="topless"><a href="pyexpat.html" title="next chapter">19.4. <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">xml.parsers.expat</span></tt> — Fast XML parsing using Expat</a></p> <h3>This Page</h3> <ul class="this-page-menu"> <li><a href="../bugs.html">Report a Bug</a></li> <li><a href="../_sources/library/html.entities.txt" rel="nofollow">Show Source</a></li> </ul> <div id="searchbox" style="display: none"> <h3>Quick search</h3> <form class="search" action="../search.html" method="get"> <input type="text" name="q" size="18" /> <input type="submit" value="Go" /> <input type="hidden" name="check_keywords" value="yes" /> <input type="hidden" name="area" value="default" /> </form> <p class="searchtip" style="font-size: 90%"> Enter search terms or a module, class or function name. </p> </div> <script type="text/javascript">$('#searchbox').show(0);</script> </div> </div> <div class="clearer"></div> </div> <div class="related"> <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="pyexpat.html" title="19.4. xml.parsers.expat — Fast XML parsing using Expat" >next</a> |</li> <li class="right" > <a href="html.parser.html" title="19.2. 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="../index.html">Python v3.2.2 documentation</a> »</li> <li><a href="index.html" >The Python Standard Library</a> »</li> <li><a href="markup.html" >19. 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