https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/462a2fc09d9e5f7cdd3a8f2faed73e5bc2c93349 commit: 462a2fc09d9e5f7cdd3a8f2faed73e5bc2c93349 branch: main author: Stanley <[email protected]> committer: serhiy-storchaka <[email protected]> date: 2024-02-23T18:57:08Z summary:
gh-54358: Clarify data chunking in pyexpat (GH-31629) Co-authored-by: Éric Araujo <[email protected]> files: M Doc/library/pyexpat.rst diff --git a/Doc/library/pyexpat.rst b/Doc/library/pyexpat.rst index 935e872480efda..a6ae8fdaa4991c 100644 --- a/Doc/library/pyexpat.rst +++ b/Doc/library/pyexpat.rst @@ -214,7 +214,8 @@ XMLParser Objects :meth:`CharacterDataHandler` callback whenever possible. This can improve performance substantially since Expat normally breaks character data into chunks at every line ending. This attribute is false by default, and may be changed at - any time. + any time. Note that when it is false, data that does not contain newlines + may be chunked too. .. attribute:: xmlparser.buffer_used @@ -372,7 +373,10 @@ otherwise stated. marked content, and ignorable whitespace. Applications which must distinguish these cases can use the :attr:`StartCdataSectionHandler`, :attr:`EndCdataSectionHandler`, and :attr:`ElementDeclHandler` callbacks to - collect the required information. + collect the required information. Note that the character data may be + chunked even if it is short and so you may receive more than one call to + :meth:`CharacterDataHandler`. Set the :attr:`buffer_text` instance attribute + to ``True`` to avoid that. .. method:: xmlparser.UnparsedEntityDeclHandler(entityName, base, systemId, publicId, notationName) _______________________________________________ Python-checkins mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-checkins.python.org/ Member address: [email protected]
