#2927: Added the unescape() function to the html module.

2 files changed, 12 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/Doc/library/html.entities.rst b/Doc/library/html.entities.rst
index 65ce817..ba8324c 100644
--- a/Doc/library/html.entities.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/html.entities.rst
@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@ This module defines four dictionaries, :data:`html5`,
    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 :func:`html.unescape`.
 
    .. versionadded:: 3.3
 
diff --git a/Doc/library/html.rst b/Doc/library/html.rst
index 1107ca9..d0706bc 100644
--- a/Doc/library/html.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/html.rst
@@ -20,6 +20,17 @@ This module defines utilities to manipulate HTML.
 
    .. versionadded:: 3.2
 
+
+.. function:: unescape(s)
+
+   Convert all named and numeric character references (e.g. ``>``,
+   ``>``, ``&x3e;``) in the string *s* to the corresponding unicode
+   characters.  This function uses the rules defined by the HTML 5 standard
+   for both valid and invalid character references, and the :data:`list of
+   HTML 5 named character references <html.entities.html5>`.
+
+   .. versionadded:: 3.4
+
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 Submodules in the ``html`` package are: