HTMLParser.handle_charref(name) This method is called to process decimal and hexadecimal numeric character references of the form &#NNN; and &#xNNN;. For example, the decimal equivalent for > is >, whereas the hexadecimal is >; in this case the method will receive '62' or 'x3E'. This method is never called if convert_charrefs is True.

HTMLParser.get_starttag_text() Return the text of the most recently opened start tag. This should not normally be needed for structured processing, but may be useful in dealing with HTML “as deployed” or for re-generating input with minimal changes (whitespace between attributes can be preserved, etc.).

HTMLParser.getpos() Return current line number and offset.

HTMLParser.feed(data) Feed some text to the parser. It is processed insofar as it consists of complete elements; incomplete data is buffered until more data is fed or close() is called. data must be str.

HTMLParser.close() Force processing of all buffered data as if it were followed by an end-of-file mark. This method may be redefined by a derived class to define additional processing at the end of the input, but the redefined version should always call the HTMLParser base class method close().

class html.parser.HTMLParser(*, convert_charrefs=True) Create a parser instance able to parse invalid markup. If convert_charrefs is True (the default), all character references (except the ones in script/style elements) are automatically converted to the corresponding Unicode characters. An HTMLParser instance is fed HTML data and calls handler methods when start tags, end tags, text, comments, and other markup elements are encountered. The user should subclass HTMLParser and override its m

html.escape(s, quote=True) Convert the characters &, < and > in string s to HTML-safe sequences. Use this if you need to display text that might contain such characters in HTML. If the optional flag quote is true, the characters (") and (') are also translated; this helps for inclusion in an HTML attribute value delimited by quotes, as in <a href="...">. New in version 3.2.

html.entities.name2codepoint A dictionary that maps HTML entity names to the Unicode code points.

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(). New in version 3.3.

html.entities.entitydefs A dictionary mapping XHTML 1.0 entity definitions to their replacement text in ISO Latin-1.