[lxml-dev] how knowing the types return by .xpath

[Sergio Monteiro Basto]

Example: 

from lxml import etree

f = open(options.file).read()

hparser = etree.HTMLParser(encoding='utf-8', remove_comments=True)
etree_document = etree.HTML(f, parser=hparser)

elems=etree_document.xpath(strxpath)

for frags in elems:
	print type (frags)
(...) 

if strxpath is equal //h1/following-sibling::text()
prints
<type 'lxml.etree._ElementUnicodeResult'>

if strxpath is equal //div[@class="news"]
prints 
<type 'lxml.etree._Element'>

How I do a "if" to detected the types ? 

 

thanks 
-- 
Sérgio M. B.
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