Package lxml :: Module etree :: Class HTMLParser

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# Class HTMLParser

     object --+
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    _BaseParser --+
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        _FeedParser --+
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                     HTMLParser

Known Subclasses:
  - html.HTMLParser

HTMLParser(self, recover=True, no_network=True, remove_blank_text=False, compact=True, remove_comments=False, remove_pis=False, target=None, encoding=None, schema=None) The HTML parser.

This parser allows reading HTML into a normal XML tree. By default, it can read broken (non well-formed) HTML, depending on the capabilities of libxml2. Use the 'recover' option to switch this off.

Available boolean keyword arguments:

- recover - try hard to parse through broken HTML (default: True)
- no_network - prevent network access for related files (default: True)
- remove_blank_text - discard empty text nodes
- remove_comments - discard comments
- remove_pis - discard processing instructions
- strip_cdata - replace CDATA sections by normal text content (default: True)
- compact - safe memory for short text content (default: True)

Other keyword arguments:

- encoding - override the document encoding
- target - a parser target object that will receive the parse events
- schema - an XMLSchema to validate against

Note that you should avoid sharing parsers between threads for performance reasons.

Instance Methods | [hide private]

__init__(self, recover=True, no_network=True, remove_blank_text=False, compact=True, remove_comments=False, remove_pis=False, target=None, encoding=None, schema=None) x.__init__(...) initializes x; see x.__class__.__doc__ for signature |

a new object with type S, a subtype of T

__new__(T, S, ...) |

Inherited from `_FeedParser`: `close`, `feed` Inherited from `_BaseParser`: `copy`, `makeelement`, `setElementClassLookup`, `set_element_class_lookup` Inherited from `object`: `__delattr__`, `__getattribute__`, `__hash__`, `__reduce__`, `__reduce_ex__`, `__repr__`, `__setattr__`, `__str__`

Properties | [hide private]

Inherited from `_FeedParser`: `feed_error_log` Inherited from `_BaseParser`: `error_log`, `resolvers`, `version` Inherited from `object`: `__class__`

Method Details | [hide private]

### __init__(self, recover=True, no_network=True, remove_blank_text=False, compact=True, remove_comments=False, remove_pis=False, target=None, encoding=None, schema=None)
(Constructor)

x.__init__(...) initializes x; see x.__class__.__doc__ for signature

Overrides: object.__init__

### __new__(T, S, ...)

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