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authorSerhiy Storchaka <storchaka@gmail.com>2013-01-13 20:24:27 (GMT)
committerSerhiy Storchaka <storchaka@gmail.com>2013-01-13 20:24:27 (GMT)
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Cleanup the docs ElementTree a bit.
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-rw-r--r--Lib/xml/etree/ElementTree.py16
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/Lib/xml/etree/ElementTree.py b/Lib/xml/etree/ElementTree.py
index eab0a4f..85cab2b 100644
--- a/Lib/xml/etree/ElementTree.py
+++ b/Lib/xml/etree/ElementTree.py
@@ -785,16 +785,16 @@ class ElementTree:
default_namespace=None,
method=None, *,
short_empty_elements=True):
- """Write the element tree to a file, as XML. 'file_or_filename' is a
- file name or a file object opened for writing. 'encoding' is the
- output encoding (default is US-ASCII). 'xml_declaration' controls
- if an XML declaration should be added to the output. Use False
- for never, True for always, None for only if not US-ASCII or
- UTF-8 or Unicode (default is None). 'method' is either "xml"
- (default), "html", "text" or "c14n".
+ """Write the element tree to a file, as XML. 'file_or_filename' is a
+ file name or a file object opened for writing.
+ 'encoding' is the output encoding (default is US-ASCII).
+ 'xml_declaration' controls if an XML declaration should be added
+ to the output. Use False for never, True for always, None for only
+ if not US-ASCII or UTF-8 or Unicode (default is None).
'default_namespace' sets the default XML namespace (for "xmlns").
+ 'method' is either "xml" (default), "html", "text" or "c14n".
The keyword-only 'short_empty_elements' parameter controls the
- formatting of elements that contain no content. If True (default),
+ formatting of elements that contain no content. If True (default),
they are emitted as a single self-closed tag, otherwise they are
emitted as a pair of start/end tags.