Package lxml :: Module etree :: Class EntityBase

Class EntityBase

         object --+            
                  |            
           _Element --+        
                      |        
??.__ContentOnlyElement --+    
                          |    
                    _Entity --+
                              |
                             EntityBase

Known Subclasses:

html.HtmlEntity

All custom Entity classes must inherit from this one.

To create an XML Entity instance, use the Entity() 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 Entities 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 _Entity: __repr__

Inherited from unreachable.__ContentOnlyElement: __delitem__, __getitem__, __len__, __setitem__, append, get, 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 _Entity: name, tag, text

Inherited from unreachable.__ContentOnlyElement: attrib

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 EntityBase

__init__(...) (Constructor)

__new__(T, S, ...)

init(...)
(Constructor)

new(T, S, ...)