Re: [Python-Dev] [Python-checkins] cpython: Add a few entries to whatsnew/3.3.rst.

Ezio Melotti, 26.09.2012 18:30:

""" The problem is that the standard allows some charref to end without a ';', but not all of them.

So both "Éric" and Éric" will be parsed as "Éric", but only "αcentauri" will result in "αcentauri" -- "&alphacentauri" will be returned unchanged. """

To preserve this I included them both, in the same way they are listed at <http://www.w3.org/TR/html5/named-character-references.html>.

Interesting. Seems to be missing on dailywtf, though. Maybe just an oversight. Stefan