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| author | Andrew M. Kuchling <amk@amk.ca> | 2010-07-25 22:57:12 (GMT) |
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| committer | Andrew M. Kuchling <amk@amk.ca> | 2010-07-25 22:57:12 (GMT) |
| commit | 4d4d1ce7a7ee54b071c4e8436dd52725dc301670 (patch) | |
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| parent | 07de165d6ee05a3d3481579c5b125393cdbfd075 (diff) | |
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#1495229: update the type names used by the XML DOM mapping
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| -rw-r--r-- | Doc/library/xml.dom.rst | 23 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 14 deletions
diff --git a/Doc/library/xml.dom.rst b/Doc/library/xml.dom.rst index ebe1092..c1786a6 100644 --- a/Doc/library/xml.dom.rst +++ b/Doc/library/xml.dom.rst @@ -976,29 +976,24 @@ Python. Type Mapping ^^^^^^^^^^^^ -The primitive IDL types used in the DOM specification are mapped to Python types +The IDL types used in the DOM specification are mapped to Python types according to the following table. +------------------+-------------------------------------------+ | IDL Type | Python Type | +==================+===========================================+ -| ``boolean`` | ``IntegerType`` (with a value of ``0`` or | -| | ``1``) | +| ``boolean`` | ``bool`` or ``int`` | +------------------+-------------------------------------------+ -| ``int`` | ``IntegerType`` | +| ``int`` | ``int`` | +------------------+-------------------------------------------+ -| ``long int`` | ``IntegerType`` | +| ``long int`` | ``int`` | +------------------+-------------------------------------------+ -| ``unsigned int`` | ``IntegerType`` | +| ``unsigned int`` | ``int`` | ++------------------+-------------------------------------------+ +| ``DOMString`` | ``str`` or ``bytes`` | ++------------------+-------------------------------------------+ +| ``null`` | ``None`` | +------------------+-------------------------------------------+ - -Additionally, the :class:`DOMString` defined in the recommendation is mapped to -a bytes or string object. Applications should be able to handle -Unicode whenever a string is returned from the DOM. - -The IDL ``null`` value is mapped to ``None``, which may be accepted or -provided by the implementation whenever ``null`` is allowed by the API. - .. _dom-accessor-methods: |