Chenyun Yang added the comment: handle_startendtag is also called for non-void elements, such as <a/>, so the override example will break in those situation.
The compatible patch I proposed right now is just one liner checker: # http://www.w3.org/TR/html5/syntax.html#void-elements <https://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.w3.org/TR/html5/syntax.html%23void-elements&usg=AFQjCNFVtfyZ53NDOHlPq896qmX5b8fPTA>_VOID_ELEMENT_TAGS = frozenset([ 'area', 'base', 'br', 'col', 'embed', 'hr', 'img', 'input', 'keygen', 'link', 'meta', 'param', 'source', 'track', 'wbr'])class HTMLParser.HTMLParser: # Internal -- handle starttag, return end or -1 if not terminated def parse_starttag(self, i): #... if end.endswith('/>'): # XHTML-style empty tag: <span attr="value" /> self.handle_startendtag(tag, attrs) ############# PATCH ################# elif end.endswith('>') and tag in _VOID_ELEMENT_TAGS: self.handle_startendtag(tag, attrs) ############# PATCH ################# ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue25258> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
