Python in a Nutshell

Name

handle_charref

Synopsis

                     s.handle_charref(ref)

Called to process a character reference '&# ref ;‘. SGMLParser’s implementation of handle_charref handles decimal numbers in range(0,256), like:

def handle_charref(self, ref):
    try: 
        c = chr(int(ref))
    except (TypeError, ValueError): 
        self.unknown_charref(ref)
    else: self.handle_data(c)

Your subclass X may override handle_charref or unknown_charref in order to support other forms of character references '&#...;‘.