Version: html2text==2025.4.15.
I want to rely on the behavior where <a href="http://link/">http://link/</a> gets rendered in Markdown as <http://link/>.
Unfortunately if the link contains an ampersand it renders using [link](link), despite the link and text being exactly the same:
>>> from html2text import HTML2Text as H
>>> h = H()
# good!
>>> h.handle('<a href="https://foo/">https://foo/</a>')
'<https://foo/>\n\n'
# an ampersand in the URL causes []() link syntax, but I guess that's expected since "&y" turns into "&y;"
>>> h.handle('<a href="https://foo/?x=1&y=2">https://foo/?x=1&y=2</a>')
'[https://foo/?x=1&y;=2](https://foo/?x=1&y=2)\n\n'
# but even when & is escaped, and both link and text end up being exactly the same string, []() is still generated for the link
>>> h.handle('<a href="https://foo/?x=1&y=2">https://foo/?x=1&y=2</a>')
'[https://foo/?x=1&y=2](https://foo/?x=1&y=2)\n\n'