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diff --git a/Doc/library/xml.etree.elementtree.rst b/Doc/library/xml.etree.elementtree.rst index 0731cd8e98..fb6da15a74 100644 --- a/Doc/library/xml.etree.elementtree.rst +++ b/Doc/library/xml.etree.elementtree.rst @@ -105,12 +105,15 @@ Children are nested, and we can access specific child nodes by index:: >>> root[0][1].text '2008' + +.. _elementtree-pull-parsing: + Pull API for non-blocking parsing ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ -Most parsing functions provided by this module require to read the whole -document at once before returning any result. It is possible to use a -:class:`XMLParser` and feed data into it incrementally, but it's a push API that +Most parsing functions provided by this module require the whole document +to be read at once before returning any result. It is possible to use an +:class:`XMLParser` and feed data into it incrementally, but it is a push API that calls methods on a callback target, which is too low-level and inconvenient for most needs. Sometimes what the user really wants is to be able to parse XML incrementally, without blocking operations, while enjoying the convenience of @@ -119,7 +122,7 @@ fully constructed :class:`Element` objects. The most powerful tool for doing this is :class:`XMLPullParser`. It does not require a blocking read to obtain the XML data, and is instead fed with data incrementally with :meth:`XMLPullParser.feed` calls. To get the parsed XML -elements, call :meth:`XMLPullParser.read_events`. Here's an example:: +elements, call :meth:`XMLPullParser.read_events`. Here is an example:: >>> parser = ET.XMLPullParser(['start', 'end']) >>> parser.feed('<mytag>sometext') @@ -1038,15 +1041,17 @@ XMLPullParser Objects .. method:: read_events() - Iterate over the events which have been encountered in the data fed to the - parser. This method yields ``(event, elem)`` pairs, where *event* is a + Return an iterator over the events which have been encountered in the + data fed to the + parser. The iterator yields ``(event, elem)`` pairs, where *event* is a string representing the type of event (e.g. ``"end"``) and *elem* is the encountered :class:`Element` object. Events provided in a previous call to :meth:`read_events` will not be - yielded again. As events are consumed from the internal queue only as - they are retrieved from the iterator, multiple readers calling - :meth:`read_events` in parallel will have unpredictable results. + yielded again. Events are consumed from the internal queue only when + they are retrieved from the iterator, so multiple readers iterating in + parallel over iterators obtained from :meth:`read_events` will have + unpredictable results. .. note:: |