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diff --git a/Lib/HTMLParser.py b/Lib/HTMLParser.py
index 8380466..52f8c57 100644
--- a/Lib/HTMLParser.py
+++ b/Lib/HTMLParser.py
@@ -358,12 +358,30 @@ class HTMLParser(markupbase.ParserBase):
self.error("unknown declaration: %r" % (data,))
# Internal -- helper to remove special character quoting
+ entitydefs = None
def unescape(self, s):
if '&' not in s:
return s
- s = s.replace("&lt;", "<")
- s = s.replace("&gt;", ">")
- s = s.replace("&apos;", "'")
- s = s.replace("&quot;", '"')
- s = s.replace("&amp;", "&") # Must be last
- return s
+ def replaceEntities(s):
+ s = s.groups()[0]
+ if s[0] == "#":
+ s = s[1:]
+ if s[0] in ['x','X']:
+ c = int(s[1:], 16)
+ else:
+ c = int(s)
+ return unichr(c)
+ else:
+ # Cannot use name2codepoint directly, because HTMLParser supports apos,
+ # which is not part of HTML 4
+ import htmlentitydefs
+ if HTMLParser.entitydefs is None:
+ entitydefs = HTMLParser.entitydefs = {'apos':u"'"}
+ for k, v in htmlentitydefs.name2codepoint.items():
+ entitydefs[k] = unichr(v)
+ try:
+ return self.entitydefs[s]
+ except KeyError:
+ return '&'+s+';'
+
+ return re.sub(r"&(#?[xX]?(?:[0-9a-fA-F]+|\w{1,8}));", replaceEntities, s)