Ezio Melotti added the comment: Note that HTMLParser tries to follow the HTML5 specs, and for this case they say [0]: "Set the self-closing flag of the current tag token. Switch to the data state. Emit the current tag token."
So it seems that for <img />, only the <img> (and not the closing </img>) should be emitted. HTMLParser has no way to set the self-closing flag, so calling handle_startendtag seems the most reasonable things to do, since it allows tree-builders to set the flag themselves. That said, the default implementation of handle_startendtag should indeed just call handle_starttag, however this would be a backward-incompatible change. [0]: http://www.w3.org/TR/html5/syntax.html#self-closing-start-tag-state ---------- type: -> behavior _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue25258> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
