Unescape Numeric HTML entity with html.unescape

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html.unescape seems to accept optional semicolon on escaping HTML numeric entity.
I’ve searched (maybe too few) resources and didn’t find any reasoning behind this (can be similar to #85050)

import html
t = "&#65 foo"
print(t) # A foo

Tested on Python 3.10 macOS Apple ARM

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Try it out in a browser, you’ll find that all major browsers do as well. Browsers are often pretty forgiving, so it may be that unescape mimics that.

EDIT: I’ll admit I haven’t bothered to track down if that is in a spec somewhere, I simply verified that this is the way browsers currently behave.