From dfd8954e36b997c2f6adfa34df77bab92db6381d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Fred Drake <fdrake@acm.org>
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1999 21:57:07 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Allow recognition of attributes even if they don't have space
 in front of them.  I.e., '<a name="foo"href="bar.html">' will now have two
 attributes recognized.

Based on comments from newgroup.
---
 Lib/sgmllib.py | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/Lib/sgmllib.py b/Lib/sgmllib.py
index ffb2ccc3481..8d50a88afca 100644
--- a/Lib/sgmllib.py
+++ b/Lib/sgmllib.py
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ commentopen = re.compile('<!--')
 commentclose = re.compile('--[%s]*>' % string.whitespace)
 tagfind = re.compile('[a-zA-Z][-.a-zA-Z0-9]*')
 attrfind = re.compile(
-    '[%s]+([a-zA-Z_][-.a-zA-Z_0-9]*)' % string.whitespace
+    '[%s]*([a-zA-Z_][-.a-zA-Z_0-9]*)' % string.whitespace
     + ('([%s]*=[%s]*' % (string.whitespace, string.whitespace))
     + r'(\'[^\']*\'|"[^"]*"|[-a-zA-Z0-9./:+*%?!\(\)_#=~]*))?')