Package lxml :: Module cssselect :: Class CSSSelector
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Class CSSSelector

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               object --+        
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etree._XPathEvaluatorBase --+    
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                  etree.XPath --+
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                               CSSSelector

A CSS selector.

Usage:

>>> from lxml import etree, cssselect
>>> select = cssselect.CSSSelector("a tag > child")

>>> root = etree.XML("<a><b><c/><tag><child>TEXT</child></tag></b></a>")
>>> [ el.tag for el in select(root) ]
['child']

To use CSS namespaces, you need to pass a prefix-to-namespace mapping as namespaces keyword argument:

>>> rdfns = 'http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#'
>>> select_ns = cssselect.CSSSelector('root > rdf|Description',
...                                   namespaces={'rdf': rdfns})

>>> rdf = etree.XML((
...     '<root xmlns:rdf="%s">'
...       '<rdf:Description>blah</rdf:Description>'
...     '</root>') % rdfns)
>>> [(el.tag, el.text) for el in select_ns(rdf)]
[('{http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#}Description', 'blah')]
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__init__(self, css, namespaces=None)
x.__init__(...) initializes x; see help(type(x)) for signature
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__repr__(self)
repr(x)
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Inherited from etree.XPath: __call__, __new__

Inherited from etree._XPathEvaluatorBase: evaluate

Inherited from object: __delattr__, __format__, __getattribute__, __hash__, __reduce__, __reduce_ex__, __setattr__, __sizeof__, __str__, __subclasshook__

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Inherited from etree.XPath: path

Inherited from etree._XPathEvaluatorBase: error_log

Inherited from object: __class__

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__init__(self, css, namespaces=None)
(Constructor)

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x.__init__(...) initializes x; see help(type(x)) for signature
Overrides: object.__init__
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__repr__(self)
(Representation operator)

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repr(x)
Overrides: object.__repr__
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