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#21047: set the default value for the *convert_charrefs* argument of HTMLParser to True. Patch by Berker Peksag.

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This module defines a class :class:`HTMLParser` which serves as the basis for
parsing text files formatted in HTML (HyperText Mark-up Language) and XHTML.
.. class:: HTMLParser(*, convert_charrefs=False)
.. class:: HTMLParser(*, convert_charrefs=True)
Create a parser instance able to parse invalid markup.
If *convert_charrefs* is ``True`` (default: ``False``), all character
If *convert_charrefs* is ``True`` (the default), all character
references (except the ones in ``script``/``style`` elements) are
automatically converted to the corresponding Unicode characters.
The use of ``convert_charrefs=True`` is encouraged and will become
the default in Python 3.5.
An :class:`.HTMLParser` instance is fed HTML data and calls handler methods
when start tags, end tags, text, comments, and other markup elements are
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.. versionchanged:: 3.4
*convert_charrefs* keyword argument added.
.. versionchanged:: 3.5
The default value for argument *convert_charrefs* is now ``True``.
Example HTML Parser Application
-------------------------------