BeautifulSoup.PageElement Class Reference

Inheritance diagram for BeautifulSoup.PageElement:

List of all members.

Public Member Functions
def	extract
def	findAllNext
def	findAllPrevious
def	findNext
def	findNextSibling
def	findNextSiblings
def	findParent
def	findParents
def	findPrevious
def	findPreviousSibling
def	findPreviousSiblings
def	insert
def	nextGenerator
def	nextSiblingGenerator
def	parentGenerator
def	previousGenerator
def	previousSiblingGenerator
def	replaceWith
def	setup
def	substituteEncoding
def	toEncoding
Public Attributes
	next
	nextSibling
	parent
	previous
	previousSibling
Static Public Attributes
	fetchNextSiblings = findNextSiblings
	fetchParents = findParents
	fetchPrevious = findAllPrevious
	fetchPreviousSiblings = findPreviousSiblings
Private Member Functions
def	_findAll
def	_findOne
def	_lastRecursiveChild

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Detailed Description

Contains the navigational information for some part of the page
(either a tag or a piece of text)

Definition at line 68 of file BeautifulSoup.py.

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Member Function Documentation

def BeautifulSoup.PageElement._findAll	(		self,
			name,
			attrs,
			text,
			limit,
			generator,
			kwargs
	)		[private]

Definition at line 273 of file BeautifulSoup.py.

def BeautifulSoup.PageElement._findOne	(		self,
			method,
			name,
			attrs,
			text,
			kwargs
	)		[private]

Definition at line 266 of file BeautifulSoup.py.

def BeautifulSoup.PageElement._lastRecursiveChild

(

self

)

[private]

Definition at line 126 of file BeautifulSoup.py.

def BeautifulSoup.PageElement.extract

(

self

)

Destructively rips this element out of the tree.

Definition at line 98 of file BeautifulSoup.py.

def BeautifulSoup.PageElement.findAllNext	(		self,
			name = None,
			attrs = {},
			text = None,
			limit = None,
			kwargs
	)

Returns all items that match the given criteria and appear
before after Tag in the document.

Definition at line 198 of file BeautifulSoup.py.

def BeautifulSoup.PageElement.findAllPrevious	(		self,
			name = None,
			attrs = {},
			text = None,
			limit = None,
			kwargs
	)

Returns all items that match the given criteria and appear
before this Tag in the document.

Definition at line 223 of file BeautifulSoup.py.

def BeautifulSoup.PageElement.findNext	(		self,
			name = None,
			attrs = {},
			text = None,
			kwargs
	)

Returns the first item that matches the given criteria and
appears after this Tag in the document.

Definition at line 193 of file BeautifulSoup.py.

def BeautifulSoup.PageElement.findNextSibling	(		self,
			name = None,
			attrs = {},
			text = None,
			kwargs
	)

Returns the closest sibling to this Tag that matches the
given criteria and appears after this Tag in the document.

Definition at line 204 of file BeautifulSoup.py.

def BeautifulSoup.PageElement.findNextSiblings	(		self,
			name = None,
			attrs = {},
			text = None,
			limit = None,
			kwargs
	)

Returns the siblings of this Tag that match the given
criteria and appear after this Tag in the document.

Definition at line 210 of file BeautifulSoup.py.

def BeautifulSoup.PageElement.findParent	(		self,
			name = None,
			attrs = {},
			kwargs
	)

Returns the closest parent of this Tag that matches the given
criteria.

Definition at line 245 of file BeautifulSoup.py.

def BeautifulSoup.PageElement.findParents	(		self,
			name = None,
			attrs = {},
			limit = None,
			kwargs
	)

Returns the parents of this Tag that match the given
criteria.

Definition at line 256 of file BeautifulSoup.py.

def BeautifulSoup.PageElement.findPrevious	(		self,
			name = None,
			attrs = {},
			text = None,
			kwargs
	)

Returns the first item that matches the given criteria and
appears before this Tag in the document.

Definition at line 218 of file BeautifulSoup.py.

def BeautifulSoup.PageElement.findPreviousSibling	(		self,
			name = None,
			attrs = {},
			text = None,
			kwargs
	)

Returns the closest sibling to this Tag that matches the
given criteria and appears before this Tag in the document.

Definition at line 231 of file BeautifulSoup.py.

def BeautifulSoup.PageElement.findPreviousSiblings	(		self,
			name = None,
			attrs = {},
			text = None,
			limit = None,
			kwargs
	)

Returns the siblings of this Tag that match the given
criteria and appear before this Tag in the document.

Definition at line 237 of file BeautifulSoup.py.

def BeautifulSoup.PageElement.insert	(		self,
			position,
			newChild
	)

Definition at line 133 of file BeautifulSoup.py.

def BeautifulSoup.PageElement.nextGenerator

(

self

)

Definition at line 298 of file BeautifulSoup.py.

def BeautifulSoup.PageElement.nextSiblingGenerator

(

self

)

Definition at line 304 of file BeautifulSoup.py.

def BeautifulSoup.PageElement.parentGenerator

(

self

)

Definition at line 322 of file BeautifulSoup.py.

def BeautifulSoup.PageElement.previousGenerator

(

self

)

Definition at line 310 of file BeautifulSoup.py.

def BeautifulSoup.PageElement.previousSiblingGenerator

(

self

)

Definition at line 316 of file BeautifulSoup.py.

def BeautifulSoup.PageElement.replaceWith	(		self,
			replaceWith
	)

Definition at line 84 of file BeautifulSoup.py.

def BeautifulSoup.PageElement.setup	(		self,
			parent = None,
			previous = None
	)

Sets up the initial relations between this element and
other elements.

Definition at line 72 of file BeautifulSoup.py.

def BeautifulSoup.PageElement.substituteEncoding	(		self,
			str,
			encoding = None
	)

Definition at line 329 of file BeautifulSoup.py.

def BeautifulSoup.PageElement.toEncoding	(		self,
			s,
			encoding = None
	)

Encodes an object to a string in some encoding, or to Unicode.
.

Definition at line 333 of file BeautifulSoup.py.

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Member Data Documentation

BeautifulSoup.PageElement::fetchNextSiblings = findNextSiblings [static]

Definition at line 216 of file BeautifulSoup.py.

BeautifulSoup.PageElement::fetchParents = findParents [static]

Definition at line 262 of file BeautifulSoup.py.

BeautifulSoup.PageElement::fetchPrevious = findAllPrevious [static]

Definition at line 229 of file BeautifulSoup.py.

BeautifulSoup.PageElement::fetchPreviousSiblings = findPreviousSiblings [static]

Definition at line 243 of file BeautifulSoup.py.

BeautifulSoup.PageElement::next

Definition at line 73 of file BeautifulSoup.py.

BeautifulSoup.PageElement::nextSibling

Definition at line 73 of file BeautifulSoup.py.

BeautifulSoup.PageElement::parent

Definition at line 73 of file BeautifulSoup.py.

BeautifulSoup.PageElement::previous

Reimplemented in BeautifulSoup.BeautifulStoneSoup.

Definition at line 73 of file BeautifulSoup.py.

BeautifulSoup.PageElement::previousSibling

Definition at line 73 of file BeautifulSoup.py.

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The documentation for this class was generated from the following file:

• BeautifulSoup.py