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

[Christian Zagrodnick]

On 2007-06-11 16:29:51 +0200, Stefan Behnel <stefan_ml at behnel.de> said:

> 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.

gaah... *takes blindfold off*

Thanks Stefan.

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