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-rw-r--r--Lib/html/parser.py10
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Lib/html/parser.py b/Lib/html/parser.py
index 390d4cc..43e6411 100644
--- a/Lib/html/parser.py
+++ b/Lib/html/parser.py
@@ -139,7 +139,15 @@ class HTMLParser(_markupbase.ParserBase):
if self.convert_charrefs and not self.cdata_elem:
j = rawdata.find('<', i)
if j < 0:
- if not end:
+ # if we can't find the next <, either we are at the end
+ # or there's more text incoming. If the latter is True,
+ # we can't pass the text to handle_data in case we have
+ # a charref cut in half at end. Try to determine if
+ # this is the case before proceding by looking for an
+ # & near the end and see if it's followed by a space or ;.
+ amppos = rawdata.rfind('&', max(i, n-34))
+ if (amppos >= 0 and
+ not re.compile(r'[\s;]').search(rawdata, amppos)):
break # wait till we get all the text
j = n
else: