I am fine with either handle_startendtag or handle_starttag,

The issue is that the behavior is consistent for the two equally valid
syntax (<img> and <img/> are handled differently); this inconsistent cannot
be fixed from the inherited class as (handle_* calls are dispatched in the
internal method of HTMLParser)

On Fri, Oct 2, 2015 at 12:42 PM, Ezio Melotti <report@bugs.python.org>
wrote:

>
> Ezio Melotti added the comment:
>
> Note that HTMLParser tries to follow the HTML5 specs, and for this case
> they say [0]:
> "Set the self-closing flag of the current tag token. Switch to the data
> state. Emit the current tag token."
>
> So it seems that for <img />, only the <img> (and not the closing </img>)
> should be emitted.  HTMLParser has no way to set the self-closing flag, so
> calling handle_startendtag seems the most reasonable things to do, since it
> allows tree-builders to set the flag themselves.  That said, the default
> implementation of handle_startendtag should indeed just call
> handle_starttag, however this would be a backward-incompatible change.
>
> [0]: http://www.w3.org/TR/html5/syntax.html#self-closing-start-tag-state
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