New submission from Jason Sachs: The HTMLParser class (https://docs.python.org/2/library/htmlparser.html) is lacking a few features to reconstruct input exactly. For the most part it can do this, but I found two items where it falls short (there may be others):
- There is a get_starttag_text() method but no get_endtag_text() method, which is necessary if the end tag is not in canonical form, e.g. instead of </p> it is </P> or </ P > - The effect of the parse_bogus_comment() internal method is to call handle_comment(), so content like <! I AM BOGUS > cannot be distinguished by subclasses of HTMLParser from actual comments <!-- I AM BOGUS --> Suggested changes: - Add a get_endtag_text() method to return the exact endtag text - change parse_bogus_comment to call self.handle_bogus_comment(), and define self.handle_bogus_comment() to call self.handle_comment(). This way it is backwards-compatible with existing behavior, but subclasses can redefine self.handle_bogus_comment() to do what they want. ---------- messages: 257472 nosy: jason_s priority: normal severity: normal status: open title: HTMLParser lacking a few features to reconstruct input exactly type: behavior versions: Python 2.7 _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue26009> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
