[lxml-dev] lxml.etree.parse doesn't take parser argument into account?

[Stefan Behnel]

Hi,

Christian Zagrodnick wrote:
> maybe I'm doning something very wrong here. Regarding the following:
> 
> In [1]:import StringIO
> 
> In [2]:import lxml.etree
> 
> In [3]:import lxml.objectify
> 
> In [4]:parser = lxml.etree.XMLParser()
> 
> In 
> [5]:parser.setElementClassLookup(lxml.objectify.ObjectifyElementClassLookup())
> 
> In 
> 
> [6]:lxml.etree.parse(StringIO.StringIO("<a/>"), parser)
> Out[6]:<etree._ElementTree object at 0x1450e40>
> 
> 
> I would have expected to get an objectified element out of the parse 
> call. What am I missing here? Or is this a bug?

As your example shows, parse() returns an ElementTree object, not an Element.

http://effbot.org/zone/element.htm#reading-and-writing-xml-files

If you want the root Element object, call the "getroot()" method on the result
tree.

Stefan