Subject changed: Bug in combining htmlentitydefs.py and ElementTree?

["Martin v. Löwis"]

> Sorry for the top posting - I found out that the problem I encountered
> was not something new in Python 3.0.

See Fredrik's message. The problem is not with htmlentitydefs, but with
your usage of ElementTree - in ElementTree, the .entity dictionary
values are not again parsed, apparently causing the '&' to be taken
as a literal ampersand, and not as markup.

That said, it *would* be possible to change htmlentitydefs in Python
3.0, to always map to Unicode characters; this would not be possible for
2.x (as Fredrik points out).

Regards,
Martin