[New-bugs-announce] [issue10759] HTMLParser.unescape() cannot handle HTML entities with incorrect syntax (e.g. &#hearts; )

[Martin Potthast]

New submission from Martin Potthast <martin.potthast at googlemail.com>:

The title says it all; try the minimal example.

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components: Library (Lib)
files: parser-fail.py
messages: 124506
nosy: Martin.Potthast
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: HTMLParser.unescape() cannot handle HTML entities with incorrect syntax (e.g. &#hearts;)
versions: Python 2.6
Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file20139/parser-fail.py

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