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"html" — HyperText Markup Language support
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**Source code:** Lib/html/__init__.py

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This module defines utilities to manipulate HTML.

html.escape(s, quote=True)

Convert the characters "&", "<" and ">" in string *s* to HTML-safe
sequences. Use this if you need to display text that might contain
such characters in HTML. If the optional flag *quote* is true, the
characters (""") and ("'") are also translated; this helps for
inclusion in an HTML attribute value delimited by quotes, as in "<a
href="...">".

New in version 3.2.

html.unescape(s)

Convert all named and numeric character references (e.g. "&gt;",
"&#62;", "&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
"list of HTML 5 named character references".

New in version 3.4.

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Submodules in the "html" package are:

* "html.parser" – HTML/XHTML parser with lenient parsing mode

* "html.entities" – HTML entity definitions