[Python-Dev] cpython (2.7): #14538: HTMLParser can now parse correctly start tags that contain a bare /.

[Georg Brandl]

On 19.04.2012 03:36, ezio.melotti wrote:
> http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/36c901fcfcda
> changeset:   76413:36c901fcfcda
> branch:      2.7
> user:        Ezio Melotti <ezio.melotti at gmail.com>
> date:        Wed Apr 18 19:08:41 2012 -0600
> summary:
>   #14538: HTMLParser can now parse correctly start tags that contain a bare /.

> diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
> --- a/Misc/NEWS
> +++ b/Misc/NEWS
> @@ -50,6 +50,9 @@
>  Library
>  -------
>  
> +- Issue #14538: HTMLParser can now parse correctly start tags that contain
> +  a bare '/'.
> +

I think that's misleading: there's no way to "correctly" parse malformed HTML.

Georg