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authorEli Bendersky <eliben@gmail.com>2013-08-26 02:06:16 (GMT)
committerEli Bendersky <eliben@gmail.com>2013-08-26 02:06:16 (GMT)
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Clarify pyexpat documentation in StartElementHandler
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@@ -339,8 +339,10 @@ otherwise stated.
.. method:: xmlparser.StartElementHandler(name, attributes)
Called for the start of every element. *name* is a string containing the
- element name, and *attributes* is a dictionary mapping attribute names to their
- values.
+ element name, and *attributes* is the element attributes. If
+ :attr:`ordered_attributes` is true, this is a list (see
+ :attr:`ordered_attributes` for a full description). Otherwise it's a
+ dictionary mapping names to values.
.. method:: xmlparser.EndElementHandler(name)