Package lxml :: Module etree :: Class PIBase

Class PIBase

         object --+            
                  |            
           _Element --+        
                      |        
??.__ContentOnlyElement --+    
                          |    
     _ProcessingInstruction --+
                              |
                             PIBase

Known Subclasses:

All custom Processing Instruction classes must inherit from this one.

To create an XML ProcessingInstruction instance, use the PI() factory.

Subclasses must not override __init__ or __new__ as it is absolutely undefined when these objects will be created or destroyed. All persistent state of PIs must be stored in the underlying XML. If you really need to initialize the object after creation, you can implement an _init(self) method that will be called after object creation.

Instance Methods

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__init__(...)
x.__init__(...) initializes x; see help(type(x)) for signature

a new object with type S, a subtype of T

__new__(T, S, ...)

Inherited from _ProcessingInstruction: __repr__, get

Inherited from unreachable.__ContentOnlyElement: __delitem__, __getitem__, __len__, __setitem__, append, insert, items, keys, set, values

Inherited from _Element: __contains__, __copy__, __deepcopy__, __iter__, __nonzero__, __reversed__, addnext, addprevious, clear, extend, find, findall, findtext, getchildren, getiterator, getnext, getparent, getprevious, getroottree, index, iter, iterancestors, iterchildren, iterdescendants, iterfind, itersiblings, itertext, makeelement, remove, replace, xpath

Inherited from _Element (private): _init

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

Properties

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Inherited from _ProcessingInstruction: attrib, tag, target

Inherited from unreachable.__ContentOnlyElement: text

Inherited from _Element: base, nsmap, prefix, sourceline, tail

Inherited from object: __class__

Method Details

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init(...)
(Constructor)

x.__init__(...) initializes x; see help(type(x)) for signature

Overrides: object.__init__

new(T, S, ...)

Returns: a new object with type S, a subtype of T
Overrides: object.__new__

Class PIBase

__init__(...) (Constructor)

__new__(T, S, ...)

init(...)
(Constructor)

new(T, S, ...)