(x)html parser

html.py

#!/usr/bin/env python3

import html
import http.client
import re
from xml.etree import ElementTree

parser = ElementTree.XMLParser()
for entity, char in html.entities.html5.items():
    parser.entity[entity[:-1]] = char

conn = http.client.HTTPSConnection('docs.python.org')
conn.request('GET', '/3/library/xml.etree.elementtree.html')
response = conn.getresponse()
xmlstring = response.read().decode('utf-8')
xmlstring = re.sub(' xmlns="[^"]+"', '', xmlstring, count=1)
tree = ElementTree.fromstring(xmlstring, parser=parser)
print(next(tree.iter('a')).text)