From 20fce65973531cdf27538ccad71a8e82d1b49892 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: scoder <none@none>
Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2008 12:34:34 +0100
Subject: [svn r3237] r3378@delle:  sbehnel | 2008-02-01 12:33:42 +0100 
 explain different return values of fromstring() and parse()

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branch : trunk
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 doc/tutorial.txt | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

(limited to 'doc/tutorial.txt')

diff --git a/doc/tutorial.txt b/doc/tutorial.txt
index c0ef4591..c63d9dd0 100644
--- a/doc/tutorial.txt
+++ b/doc/tutorial.txt
@@ -602,6 +602,10 @@ the string parser functions::
     >>> print etree.tostring(root)
     <root>data</root>
 
+The reasoning behind this difference is that ``parse()`` returns a
+complete document from a file, while the string parsing functions are
+commonly used to parse XML fragments.
+
 The ``parse()`` function supports any of the following sources:
 
 * an open file object
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