SGMLParser bug? can't parse <br/>

Thu May 15 13:56:04 EDT 2003

I try to use sgmllib.SGMLParser to parse the following HTML

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<html>
<body>
  <br/>
</body>
</html>
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The output is rather messed up.

start tag: <html>
data: '\r\n'
start tag: <body>
data: '\r\n  '
start tag: <br>
data: '>\r\n<'            <-- mess up
end tag: </br>
data: 'body>\r\n'         <-- mess up
end tag: </html>
data: '\r\n'

No problem if I use <br> instead of <br/>.

Is there any place to report Python library bugs?

Wai Yip Tung