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author | Miss Islington (bot) <31488909+miss-islington@users.noreply.github.com> | 2019-05-31 23:58:54 -0700 |
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committer | Stefan Behnel <stefan_ml@behnel.de> | 2019-06-01 08:58:54 +0200 |
commit | 18e23f227be59241cbb1eeb6d6669771dd7275fb (patch) | |
tree | 3b2615e50af0788a527632810a03d0f3a5653399 /Doc | |
parent | 464c1ec65af2c1c1d849d50d9726fa453804e70e (diff) | |
download | cpython-git-18e23f227be59241cbb1eeb6d6669771dd7275fb.tar.gz |
bpo-18911: clarify that the minidom XML writer receives texts but not bytes (GH-13718)
(cherry picked from commit 5ac0b988fd5f1428efe35329c531c7b5c74d37f6)
Co-authored-by: Windson yang <wiwindson@outlook.com>
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-rw-r--r-- | Doc/library/xml.dom.minidom.rst | 11 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/Doc/library/xml.dom.minidom.rst b/Doc/library/xml.dom.minidom.rst index 96080c3e31..c68b0371af 100644 --- a/Doc/library/xml.dom.minidom.rst +++ b/Doc/library/xml.dom.minidom.rst @@ -134,11 +134,12 @@ module documentation. This section lists the differences between the API and .. method:: Node.writexml(writer, indent="", addindent="", newl="") - Write XML to the writer object. The writer should have a :meth:`write` method - which matches that of the file object interface. The *indent* parameter is the - indentation of the current node. The *addindent* parameter is the incremental - indentation to use for subnodes of the current one. The *newl* parameter - specifies the string to use to terminate newlines. + Write XML to the writer object. The writer receives texts but not bytes as input, + it should have a :meth:`write` method which matches that of the file object + interface. The *indent* parameter is the indentation of the current node. + The *addindent* parameter is the incremental indentation to use for subnodes + of the current one. The *newl* parameter specifies the string to use to + terminate newlines. For the :class:`Document` node, an additional keyword argument *encoding* can be used to specify the encoding field of the XML header. |