Bug in htmlentitydefs.py with Python 3.0?

[Fredrik Lundh]

Martin v. Löwis wrote:

>>     entity_map = htmlentitydefs.entitydefs.copy()
>>     for name, entity in entity_map.items():
>>         if len(entity) != 1:
>>             entity_map[name] = unichr(int(entity[2:-1]))
>>
>> (entitydefs is pretty unusable as it is, but it was added to Python
>> before Python got Unicode strings, and changing it would break ancient
>> code...)
> 
> I would not write it this way, but as
> 
> for name,codepoint in htmlentitydefs.name2codepoint:
>   entity_map[name] = unichr(codepoint)

has dictionary iteration changed in 3.0?  if not, your code doesn't 
quite work.  and even if you fix that, it doesn't work for all Python 
versions that ET works for...

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