diff --git a/Doc/library/html.parser.rst b/Doc/library/html.parser.rst
--- a/Doc/library/html.parser.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/html.parser.rst
@@ -16,13 +16,14 @@
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(strict=True)
+.. class:: HTMLParser(strict=False)
- Create a parser instance. If *strict* is ``True`` (the default), invalid
- HTML results in :exc:`~html.parser.HTMLParseError` exceptions [#]_. If
- *strict* is ``False``, the parser uses heuristics to make a best guess at
- the intention of any invalid HTML it encounters, similar to the way most
- browsers do. Using ``strict=False`` is advised.
+ Create a parser instance. If *strict* is ``False`` (the default), the parser
+ will accept and parse invalid markup. If *strict* is ``True`` the parser
+ will raise an :exc:`~html.parser.HTMLParseError` exception instead [#]_ when
+ it's not able to parse the markup.
+ The use of ``strict=True`` is discouraged and the *strict* argument is
+ deprecated.
An :class:`.HTMLParser` instance is fed HTML data and calls handler methods
when start tags, end tags, text, comments, and other markup elements are
@@ -34,6 +35,10 @@
.. versionchanged:: 3.2 *strict* keyword added
+ .. deprecated-removed:: 3.3 3.5
+ The *strict* argument and the strict mode have been deprecated.
+ The parser is now able to accept and parse invalid markup too.
+
An exception is defined as well:
@@ -46,6 +51,10 @@
detected, and :attr:`offset` is the number of characters into the line at
which the construct starts.
+ .. deprecated-removed:: 3.3 3.5
+ This exception has been deprecated because it's never raised by the parser
+ (when the default non-strict mode is used).
+
Example HTML Parser Application
-------------------------------
diff --git a/Lib/html/parser.py b/Lib/html/parser.py
--- a/Lib/html/parser.py
+++ b/Lib/html/parser.py
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@
import _markupbase
import re
+import warnings
# Regular expressions used for parsing
@@ -113,14 +114,15 @@
CDATA_CONTENT_ELEMENTS = ("script", "style")
- def __init__(self, strict=True):
+ def __init__(self, strict=False):
"""Initialize and reset this instance.
- If strict is set to True (the default), errors are raised when invalid
- HTML is encountered. If set to False, an attempt is instead made to
- continue parsing, making "best guesses" about the intended meaning, in
- a fashion similar to what browsers typically do.
+ If strict is set to False (the default) the parser will parse invalid
+ markup, otherwise it will raise an error.
"""
+ if strict:
+ warnings.warn("The strict mode is deprecated.",
+ DeprecationWarning, stacklevel=2)
self.strict = strict
self.reset()
@@ -271,8 +273,8 @@
# See also parse_declaration in _markupbase
def parse_html_declaration(self, i):
rawdata = self.rawdata
- if rawdata[i:i+2] != '', i+2)
if pos == -1:
return -1
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_htmlparser.py b/Lib/test/test_htmlparser.py
--- a/Lib/test/test_htmlparser.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_htmlparser.py
@@ -102,7 +102,8 @@
class HTMLParserStrictTestCase(TestCaseBase):
def get_collector(self):
- return EventCollector(strict=True)
+ with support.check_warnings(("", DeprecationWarning), quite=False):
+ return EventCollector(strict=True)
def test_processing_instruction_only(self):
self._run_check("", [
@@ -594,7 +595,8 @@
class AttributesStrictTestCase(TestCaseBase):
def get_collector(self):
- return EventCollector(strict=True)
+ with support.check_warnings(("", DeprecationWarning), quite=False):
+ return EventCollector(strict=True)
def test_attr_syntax(self):
output = [