diff --git a/Lib/test/test_htmllib.py b/Lib/test/test_htmllib.py
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+import formatter
+import htmllib
+import unittest
+
+import test_support
+
+
+class AnchorCollector(htmllib.HTMLParser):
+    def __init__(self, *args, **kw):
+        self.__anchors = []
+        htmllib.HTMLParser.__init__(self, *args, **kw)
+
+    def get_anchor_info(self):
+        return self.__anchors
+
+    def anchor_bgn(self, *args):
+        self.__anchors.append(args)
+
+
+class HTMLParserTestCase(unittest.TestCase):
+    def test_anchor_collection(self):
+        # See SF bug #467059.
+        parser = AnchorCollector(formatter.NullFormatter(), verbose=1)
+        parser.feed(
+            """<a href='http://foo.org/' name='splat'> </a>
+            <a href='http://www.python.org/'> </a>
+            <a name='frob'> </a>
+            """)
+        parser.close()
+        self.assertEquals(parser.get_anchor_info(),
+                          [('http://foo.org/', 'splat', ''),
+                           ('http://www.python.org/', '', ''),
+                           ('', 'frob', ''),
+                           ])
+
+
+def test_main():
+    test_support.run_unittest(HTMLParserTestCase)
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    test_main()