make reporting unbalanced tags an overridable method

diff --git a/Lib/sgmllib.py b/Lib/sgmllib.py
index 17e5745f0ba4115a06f22a5357df81d2e0ae7259..2c92c3180f533bcab743582289ef0a51b84089c9 100644 (file)
--- a/Lib/sgmllib.py
+++ b/Lib/sgmllib.py
@@ -226,8 +226,8 @@ class SGMLParser:
                if self.stack and self.stack[-1] == tag:
                        del self.stack[-1]
                else:
-                       print '*** Unbalanced </' + tag + '>'
-                       print '*** Stack:', self.stack
+                       self.report_unbalanced(tag)
+                       # Now repair it
                        found = None
                        for i in range(len(self.stack)):
                                if self.stack[i] == tag: found = i
@@ -235,6 +235,11 @@ class SGMLParser:
                                del self.stack[found:]
                method()
 
+       # Example -- report an unbalanced </...> tag.
+       def report_unbalanced(self, tag):
+               print '*** Unbalanced </' + tag + '>'
+               print '*** Stack:', self.stack
+
        # Example -- handle character reference, no need to override
        def handle_charref(self, name):
                try: