On Jan 8, 12:21 pm, Fencer <no.i.d...@want.mail.from.spammers.com> wrote: > Hello, look at this lxml documentation > page:http://codespeak.net/lxml/api/index.html
That's for getting details about an object once you know what object you need to use to do what. In the meantime, consider reading the tutorial and executing some of the examples: http://codespeak.net/lxml/tutorial.html > How do I access the functions and variables listed? > > I tried from lxml.etree import ElementTree and the import itself seems > to pass without complaint by the python interpreter but I can't seem to > access anything in ElementTree, not the functions or variables. What is > the proper way to import that module? > > For example: > >>> from lxml.etree import ElementTree > >>> ElementTree.dump(None) > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "<console>", line 1, in <module> lxml.etree is a module. ElementTree is effectively a class. The error message that you omitted to show us might have given you a clue. To save keystrokes you may like to try from lxml import etree as ET and thereafter refer to the module as "ET" | >>> from lxml import etree as ET | >>> type(ET) | <type 'module'> | >>> type(ET.ElementTree) | <type 'builtin_function_or_method'> | >>> help(ET.ElementTree) | Help on built-in function ElementTree in module lxml.etree: | | ElementTree(...) | ElementTree(element=None, file=None, parser=None) | | ElementTree wrapper class. > Also, can I access those items that begin with an underscore if I get > the import sorted? Using pommy slang like "sorted" in an IT context has the potential to confuse your transatlantic correspondents :-) Can access? Yes. Should access? The usual Python convention is that an object whose name begins with an underscore should be accessed only via a documented interface (or, at your own risk, if you think you know what you are doing). HTH, John -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
