Ok so until you fix this bug,  i'll be overriding HTMLParser with my fix,
becuase this is a blocking issue for my project.  My HTMLParser must behave
like a browser,  period end of story.

Thanks.

On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 9:24 AM, Ezio Melotti <report@bugs.python.org>wrote:

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> Ezio Melotti <ezio.melotti@gmail.com> added the comment:
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> It seems to me that the arguments are parsed correctly, but handle_data is
> called multiple time between handle_starttag and handle_endtag.
> This might happen, e.g. in case the source lines are fed one by one to the
> parser, but in this case seems to happen whenever </ is found.
> (The tests didn't detect this because they join the data to avoid buffer
> artifacts.)
> I'm not sure if this can be considered a bug, but the situation can indeed
> be improved.
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