[3.14] pythongh-131535: Fix stale example in html.parser docs, make examples doctests (pythonGH-131551) (pythonGH-133589)

brianschubert · web-flow · commit e2d440ebc6d2 · 2025-05-07T22:03:30.000Z
(cherry picked from commit ee76e36)
diff --git a/Doc/library/html.parser.rst b/Doc/library/html.parser.rst
@@ -43,7 +43,9 @@ Example HTML Parser Application
 
 As a basic example, below is a simple HTML parser that uses the
 :class:`HTMLParser` class to print out start tags, end tags, and data
-as they are encountered::
+as they are encountered:
+
+.. testcode::
 
    from html.parser import HTMLParser
 
@@ -63,7 +65,7 @@ as they are encountered::
 
 The output will then be:
 
-.. code-block:: none
+.. testoutput::
 
    Encountered a start tag: html
    Encountered a start tag: head
@@ -230,7 +232,9 @@ Examples
 --------
 
 The following class implements a parser that will be used to illustrate more
-examples::
+examples:
+
+.. testcode::
 
    from html.parser import HTMLParser
    from html.entities import name2codepoint
@@ -266,13 +270,17 @@ examples::
 
    parser = MyHTMLParser()
 
-Parsing a doctype::
+Parsing a doctype:
+
+.. doctest::
 
    >>> parser.feed('<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" '
    ...             '"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">')
    Decl     : DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd"
 
-Parsing an element with a few attributes and a title::
+Parsing an element with a few attributes and a title:
+
+.. doctest::
 
    >>> parser.feed('<img src="python-logo.png" alt="The Python logo">')
    Start tag: img
@@ -285,7 +293,9 @@ Parsing an element with a few attributes and a title::
    End tag  : h1
 
 The content of ``script`` and ``style`` elements is returned as is, without
-further parsing::
+further parsing:
+
+.. doctest::
 
    >>> parser.feed('<style type="text/css">#python { color: green }</style>')
    Start tag: style
@@ -300,35 +310,48 @@ further parsing::
    Data     : alert("<strong>hello!</strong>");
    End tag  : script
 
-Parsing comments::
+Parsing comments:
+
+.. doctest::
 
-   >>> parser.feed('<!-- a comment -->'
+   >>> parser.feed('<!--a comment-->'
    ...             '<!--[if IE 9]>IE-specific content<![endif]-->')
-   Comment  :  a comment
+   Comment  : a comment
    Comment  : [if IE 9]>IE-specific content<![endif]
 
 Parsing named and numeric character references and converting them to the
-correct char (note: these 3 references are all equivalent to ``'>'``)::
+correct char (note: these 3 references are all equivalent to ``'>'``):
 
+.. doctest::
+
+   >>> parser = MyHTMLParser()
+   >>> parser.feed('&gt;&#62;&#x3E;')
+   Data     : >>>
+
+   >>> parser = MyHTMLParser(convert_charrefs=False)
    >>> parser.feed('&gt;&#62;&#x3E;')
    Named ent: >
    Num ent  : >
    Num ent  : >
 
 Feeding incomplete chunks to :meth:`~HTMLParser.feed` works, but
 :meth:`~HTMLParser.handle_data` might be called more than once
-(unless *convert_charrefs* is set to ``True``)::
+(unless *convert_charrefs* is set to ``True``):
 
-   >>> for chunk in ['<sp', 'an>buff', 'ered ', 'text</s', 'pan>']:
+.. doctest::
+
+   >>> for chunk in ['<sp', 'an>buff', 'ered', ' text</s', 'pan>']:
    ...     parser.feed(chunk)
    ...
    Start tag: span
    Data     : buff
    Data     : ered
-   Data     : text
+   Data     :  text
    End tag  : span
 
-Parsing invalid HTML (e.g. unquoted attributes) also works::
+Parsing invalid HTML (e.g. unquoted attributes) also works:
+
+.. doctest::
 
    >>> parser.feed('<p><a class=link href=#main>tag soup</p ></a>')
    Start tag: p
