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  r81500 | victor.stinner | 2010-05-24 23:33:24 +0200 (lun., 24 mai 2010) | 2 lines

  Issue #6662: Fix parsing of malformatted charref (&#bad;)
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  r81501 | victor.stinner | 2010-05-24 23:37:28 +0200 (lun., 24 mai 2010) | 2 lines

  Add the author of the last fix (Issue #6662)
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Lib/html/parser.py

@@ -175,6 +175,9 @@ class HTMLParser(_markupbase.ParserBase):
                     i = self.updatepos(i, k)
                     continue
                 else:
+                    if ";" in rawdata[i:]: #bail by consuming &#
+                        self.handle_data(rawdata[0:2])
+                        i = self.updatepos(i, 2)
                     break
             elif startswith('&', i):
                 match = entityref.match(rawdata, i)

Lib/test/test_htmlparser.py

@@ -136,6 +136,13 @@ text
     ("data", "\n"),
     ])
 
+    def test_malformatted_charref(self):
+        self._run_check("<p>&#bad;</p>", [
+            ("starttag", "p", []),
+            ("data", "&#bad;"),
+            ("endtag", "p"),
+        ])
+
     def test_unclosed_entityref(self):
         self._run_check("&entityref foo", [
             ("entityref", "entityref"),

Misc/ACKS

@@ -871,3 +871,4 @@ Siebren van der Zee
 Uwe Zessin
 Tarek Ziadé
 Peter Åstrand
+Fredrik Håård

Misc/NEWS

@@ -392,6 +392,9 @@ C-API
 Library
 -------
 
+- Issue #6662: Fix parsing of malformatted charref (&#bad;), patch written by
+  Fredrik Håård
+
 - Issue #8540: Decimal module: rename the Context._clamp attribute to
   Context.clamp and make it public.  This is useful in creating
   contexts that correspond to the decimal interchange formats