Commit ab2a76c8 authored by Eli Bendersky's avatar Eli Bendersky

Update ET documentation reprhasing the mention of the new IncrementalParser in

the doc for iterparse.
parent bf05df23
......@@ -387,6 +387,11 @@ Functions
:class:`XMLParser` parser is used. Returns an :term:`iterator` providing
``(event, elem)`` pairs.
Note that while :func:`iterparse` builds the tree incrementally, it issues
blocking reads on *source* (or the file it names). As such, it's unsuitable
for asynchronous applications where blocking reads can't be made. For fully
asynchronous parsing, see :class:`IncrementalParser`.
.. note::
:func:`iterparse` only guarantees that it has seen the ">"
......@@ -397,10 +402,6 @@ Functions
If you need a fully populated element, look for "end" events instead.
.. note::
For real event-driven parsing, see :class:`IncrementalParser`.
.. function:: parse(source, parser=None)
Parses an XML section into an element tree. *source* is a filename or file
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