Minor documentation updates for xml.etree.

88db6f40 · Florent Xicluna · 02b3f0ab · 88db6f40 · 88db6f40
Commit 88db6f40 authored Mar 14, 2010 by Florent Xicluna
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Doc/library/xml.etree.elementtree.rst Doc/library/xml.etree.elementtree.rst +14 -12

Lib/test/test_xml_etree.py Lib/test/test_xml_etree.py +2 -2

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--- a/Doc/library/xml.etree.elementtree.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/xml.etree.elementtree.rst
@@ -72,8 +72,8 @@ Functions
 .. function:: fromstring(text)
-   Parses an XML section from a string constant.  Same as XML.  *text* is a
+   Parses an XML section from a string constant.  Same as :func:`XML`.  *text*
-   string containing XML data.  Returns an :class:`Element` instance.
+   is a string containing XML data.  Returns an :class:`Element` instance.
 .. function:: fromstringlist(sequence, parser=None)
@@ -151,22 +151,24 @@ Functions
   arguments.  Returns an element instance.
-.. function:: tostring(element, encoding=None, method=None)
+.. function:: tostring(element, encoding="us-ascii", method="xml")
   Generates a string representation of an XML element, including all
-   subelements.  *element* is an :class:`Element` instance.  *encoding* is the
+   subelements.  *element* is an :class:`Element` instance.  *encoding* [1]_ is
-   output encoding (default is US-ASCII).  *method* is either ``"xml"``,
+   the output encoding (default is US-ASCII).  *method* is either ``"xml"``,
   ``"html"`` or ``"text"`` (default is ``"xml"``).  Returns an encoded string
   containing the XML data.
-.. function:: tostringlist(element, encoding=None, method=None)
+.. function:: tostringlist(element, encoding="us-ascii", method="xml")
   Generates a string representation of an XML element, including all
-   subelements.  *element* is an :class:`Element` instance.  *encoding* is the
+   subelements.  *element* is an :class:`Element` instance.  *encoding* [1]_ is
-   output encoding (default is US-ASCII).   *method* is either ``"xml"``,
+   the output encoding (default is US-ASCII).   *method* is either ``"xml"``,
-   ``"html"`` or ``"text"`` (default is ``"xml"``).  Returns a sequence object
+   ``"html"`` or ``"text"`` (default is ``"xml"``).  Returns a list of encoded
-   containing the XML data.
+   strings containing the XML data.  It does not guarantee any specific
+   sequence, except that ``"".join(tostringlist(element)) ==
+   tostring(element)``.
   .. versionadded:: 2.7
@@ -459,7 +461,7 @@ ElementTree Objects
      root element.
-   .. method:: write(file, encoding=None, xml_declaration=None, method=None)
+   .. method:: write(file, encoding="us-ascii", xml_declaration=None, method="xml")
      Writes the element tree to a file, as XML.  *file* is a file name, or a
      file object opened for writing.  *encoding* [1]_ is the output encoding

--- a/Lib/test/test_xml_etree.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_xml_etree.py
@@ -617,7 +617,7 @@ def parsefile():
    """
 def parseliteral():
-    r"""
+    """
    >>> element = ET.XML("<html><body>text</body></html>")
    >>> ET.ElementTree(element).write(sys.stdout)
    <html><body>text</body></html>
@@ -631,7 +631,7 @@ def parseliteral():
    >>> print "".join(ET.tostringlist(element))
    <html><body>text</body></html>
    >>> ET.tostring(element, "ascii")
-    "<?xml version='1.0' encoding='ascii'?>\n<html><body>text</body></html>"
+    "<?xml version='1.0' encoding='ascii'?>\\n<html><body>text</body></html>"
    >>> _, ids = ET.XMLID("<html><body>text</body></html>")
    >>> len(ids)
    0