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authorFred Drake <fdrake@acm.org>2001-05-23 04:53:44 (GMT)
committerFred Drake <fdrake@acm.org>2001-05-23 04:53:44 (GMT)
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Merge my changes to the offending comment with Guido's changes.
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diff --git a/Lib/HTMLParser.py b/Lib/HTMLParser.py
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+++ b/Lib/HTMLParser.py
@@ -74,15 +74,19 @@ class HTMLParseError(Exception):
# HTML parser class -- find tags and call handler functions.
-# Usage: p = HTMLParser(); p.feed(data); ...; p.close().
+# Usage:
+#
+# p = HTMLParser(); p.feed(data); ...; p.close()
# Start tags are handled by calling self.handle_starttag() or
# self.handle_startendtag(); end tags by self.handle_endtag(). The
-# data between tags is passed to the parser by calling
-# self.handle_data() with some data as argument (the data may be split
-# up in arbitrary chunks). Entity references are passed by calling
-# self.handle_entityref() with the entity reference as argument.
-# Etc.
+# data between tags is passed from the parser to the derived class by
+# calling self.handle_data() with the data as argument (the data may
+# be split up in arbitrary chunks). Entity references are passed by
+# calling self.handle_entityref() with the entity reference as the
+# argument. Numeric character references are passed to
+# self.handle_charref() with the string containing the reference as
+# the argument.
class HTMLParser: