+class HTMLAttributeParser(compat_HTMLParser):
+ """Trivial HTML parser to gather the attributes for a single element"""
+ def __init__(self):
+ self.attrs = { }
+ compat_HTMLParser.__init__(self)
+
+ def handle_starttag(self, tag, attrs):
+ self.attrs = dict(attrs)
+
+def extract_attributes(html_element):
+ """Given a string for an HTML element such as
+ <el
+ a="foo" B="bar" c="&98;az" d=boz
+ empty= noval entity="&"
+ sq='"' dq="'"
+ >
+ Decode and return a dictionary of attributes.
+ {
+ 'a': 'foo', 'b': 'bar', c: 'baz', d: 'boz',
+ 'empty': '', 'noval': None, 'entity': '&',
+ 'sq': '"', 'dq': '\''
+ }.
+ NB HTMLParser is stricter in Python 2.6 & 3.2 than in later versions,
+ but the cases in the unit test will work for all of 2.6, 2.7, 3.2-3.5.
+ """
+ parser = HTMLAttributeParser()
+ parser.feed(html_element)
+ parser.close()
+ return parser.attrs