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authorSerhiy Storchaka <storchaka@gmail.com>2013-01-13 22:24:27 +0200
committerSerhiy Storchaka <storchaka@gmail.com>2013-01-13 22:24:27 +0200
commit9e189f0a28ed99a29915dda839b913109a178111 (patch)
tree3471191876df04e838498f52efbc0949e90e5a51
parente9af827fb1682a2378d189b4e7cb8ead405a991b (diff)
parentf1b045f41740b1e25ecb5fc4f75003fac59c118a (diff)
downloadcpython-git-9e189f0a28ed99a29915dda839b913109a178111.tar.gz
Cleanup the docs ElementTree a bit.
-rw-r--r--Doc/library/xml.etree.elementtree.rst12
-rw-r--r--Lib/xml/etree/ElementTree.py16
2 files changed, 14 insertions, 14 deletions
diff --git a/Doc/library/xml.etree.elementtree.rst b/Doc/library/xml.etree.elementtree.rst
index 88855d952f..2a9f9b30b0 100644
--- a/Doc/library/xml.etree.elementtree.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/xml.etree.elementtree.rst
@@ -428,7 +428,7 @@ Functions
arguments. Returns an element instance.
-.. function:: tostring(element, encoding="us-ascii", method="xml", *,\
+.. function:: tostring(element, encoding="us-ascii", method="xml", *, \
short_empty_elements=True)
Generates a string representation of an XML element, including all
@@ -443,7 +443,7 @@ Functions
The *short_empty_elements* parameter.
-.. function:: tostringlist(element, encoding="us-ascii", method="xml", *,\
+.. function:: tostringlist(element, encoding="us-ascii", method="xml", *, \
short_empty_elements=True)
Generates a string representation of an XML element, including all
@@ -751,8 +751,8 @@ ElementTree Objects
section root element.
- .. method:: write(file, encoding="us-ascii", xml_declaration=None,\
- default_namespace=None, method="xml", *,\
+ .. method:: write(file, encoding="us-ascii", xml_declaration=None, \
+ default_namespace=None, method="xml", *, \
short_empty_elements=True)
Writes the element tree to a file, as XML. *file* is a file name, or a
@@ -761,9 +761,9 @@ ElementTree Objects
*xml_declaration* controls if an XML declaration should be added to the
file. Use ``False`` for never, ``True`` for always, ``None``
for only if not US-ASCII or UTF-8 or Unicode (default is ``None``).
+ *default_namespace* sets the default XML namespace (for "xmlns").
*method* is either ``"xml"``, ``"html"`` or ``"text"`` (default is
- ``"xml"``). *default_namespace* sets the default XML namespace (for
- "xmlns").
+ ``"xml"``).
The keyword-only *short_empty_elements* parameter controls the formatting
of elements that contain no content. If *True* (the default), they are
emitted as a single self-closed tag, otherwise they are emitted as a pair
diff --git a/Lib/xml/etree/ElementTree.py b/Lib/xml/etree/ElementTree.py
index eab0a4fa3f..85cab2b17b 100644
--- a/Lib/xml/etree/ElementTree.py
+++ b/Lib/xml/etree/ElementTree.py
@@ -785,16 +785,16 @@ class ElementTree:
default_namespace=None,
method=None, *,
short_empty_elements=True):
- """Write the element tree to a file, as XML. 'file_or_filename' is a
- file name or a file object opened for writing. 'encoding' is the
- output encoding (default is US-ASCII). 'xml_declaration' controls
- if an XML declaration should be added to the output. Use False
- for never, True for always, None for only if not US-ASCII or
- UTF-8 or Unicode (default is None). 'method' is either "xml"
- (default), "html", "text" or "c14n".
+ """Write the element tree to a file, as XML. 'file_or_filename' is a
+ file name or a file object opened for writing.
+ 'encoding' is the output encoding (default is US-ASCII).
+ 'xml_declaration' controls if an XML declaration should be added
+ to the output. Use False for never, True for always, None for only
+ if not US-ASCII or UTF-8 or Unicode (default is None).
'default_namespace' sets the default XML namespace (for "xmlns").
+ 'method' is either "xml" (default), "html", "text" or "c14n".
The keyword-only 'short_empty_elements' parameter controls the
- formatting of elements that contain no content. If True (default),
+ formatting of elements that contain no content. If True (default),
they are emitted as a single self-closed tag, otherwise they are
emitted as a pair of start/end tags.