diff --git a/Lib/html/parser.py b/Lib/html/parser.py
--- a/Lib/html/parser.py
+++ b/Lib/html/parser.py
@@ -513,3 +513,10 @@
def unknown_decl(self, data):
if self.strict:
self.error("unknown declaration: %r" % (data,))
+
+ # Internal -- helper to remove special character quoting
+ def unescape(self, s):
+ warnings.warn('The unescape method is deprecated and will be removed '
+ 'in 3.5, use html.unescape() instead.',
+ DeprecationWarning, stacklevel=2)
+ return unescape(s)
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
@@ -569,6 +569,13 @@
for html, expected in data:
self._run_check(html, expected)
+ def test_unescape_method(self):
+ from html import unescape
+ p = self.get_collector()
+ with self.assertWarns(DeprecationWarning):
+ s = '""""""bad;'
+ self.assertEqual(p.unescape(s), unescape(s))
+
def test_broken_comments(self):
html = (''
''