[issue38351] Modernize email example from %-formatting to f-string

Fred L. Drake, Jr. added the comment: I'd like to see consistent usage by default, with specific examples using the older forms as appropriate. The use cases Raymond identified are worth discussing (and the tutorial may be a good place for this), and well as mentioned in the reference docs

[issue38351] Modernize email example from %-formatting to f-string

Fred L. Drake, Jr. added the comment: Definitely agree with Eric on this; code modernization is definitely on the risky side, so judicious updates are important. (Of course, not updating is also a risk, eventually. But not much of one in this case.) This issue is really about whether

[issue38351] Modernize email example from %-formatting to f-string

Fred L. Drake, Jr. added the comment: I agree that it's less invasive and easier to review. My question (and it's just that) is whether we've made a decision to prefer one formatting syntax over others (outside of examples discussing the formatting approaches themselves). If a decision

[issue38351] Modernize email example from %-formatting to f-string

Fred L. Drake, Jr. added the comment: Does it make sense to change just one example? I'm not sure what the long-term stance is on whether %-formatting should be replaced at this point, but shouldn't this be a matter of which string formatting approach we want overall, rather than adjusting

[issue38255] Replace "method" with "attribute" in the description of super()

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[issue38255] Replace "method" with "attribute" in the description of super()

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[issue37741] importlib.metadata docs not showing up in the module index

Fred L. Drake, Jr. added the comment: Provisional status should not cause a module or other API element to be omitted from the indexes. So long as it's marked provisional where it's described, it should be locatable. -- nosy: +fdrake ___ Python

[issue34226] cgi.parse_multipart() requires undocumented CONTENT-LENGTH in Python 3.7

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[issue14149] argparse: Document how to use argument names that are not Python identifiers

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[issue36705] Unexpected Behaviour of pprint.pprint

Fred L. Drake, Jr. added the comment: Eric nailed it; pprint was not designed as a replacement for print, and was never intended to serve that purpose. Rejecting as out of scope. -- resolution: -> rejected stage: -> resolved status: open -&g

[issue36532] Example of logging.formatter with new str.format style

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[issue36532] Example of logging.formatter with new str.format style

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[issue9883] minidom: AttributeError: DocumentFragment instance has no attribute 'writexml'

Fred L. Drake, Jr. added the comment: Updated target to Python 3.8, since this has aged a bit. -- versions: +Python 3.8 -Python 3.5 ___ Python tracker <https://bugs.python.org/issue9

[issue36418] urllib.parse.*Result: support _replace for additional computed addresses

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[issue31822] Document that urllib.parse.{Defrag, Split, Parse}Result are namedtuples

Fred L. Drake, Jr. added the comment: To clarify: I'm not suggesting that an API expansion should be considered as part of this issue. -- ___ Python tracker <https://bugs.python.org/issue31

[issue31822] Document that urllib.parse.{Defrag, Split, Parse}Result are namedtuples

Fred L. Drake, Jr. added the comment: Unfortunately, when the implementation was migrated to use collections.namedtuple (a benefit), the _replace method wasn't extended to support the additional computed addresses for these types. That would really be useful. -- nosy: +fdrake

[issue36138] Improve documentation about converting datetime.timedelta to scalars

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[issue35831] Format Spec example says limited to 3.1+ but works in 2.7

Fred L. Drake, Jr. added the comment: The 3.X docs generally don't refer to the 2.X series. What that comment is pointing out is that leaving the field identifier out (the number inside the {...} placeholder syntax) was not in the 3.0, but added in 3.1. Unfortunately, I don't have a 3.0

[issue33381] Incorrect documentation for strftime()/strptime() format code %f

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[issue11233] clarifying Availability: Unix

Fred L. Drake, Jr. added the comment: A PR for this would be good, and would certainly accelerate getting this accomplished. Thanks, Cheryl! -- nosy: +fdrake ___ Python tracker <https://bugs.python.org/issue11

[issue34789] doc xml.sax.make_parser expects a list not just any sequence

Fred L. Drake, Jr. added the comment: The existing PR can be re-targeted to merge to a maintenance branch (I'd be inclined to merge manually, myself, but will have to check the current devguide to make sure that's still allowed). A new PR can be made for the non-documentation fix for master

[issue34789] doc xml.sax.make_parser expects a list not just any sequence

Fred L. Drake, Jr. added the comment: It probably makes more sense to keep that PR for the maintenance branches, and create a new branch / PR to land on master. -- ___ Python tracker <https://bugs.python.org/issue34

[issue34789] doc xml.sax.make_parser expects a list not just any sequence

Fred L. Drake, Jr. added the comment: I'm just going to presume this issue has been around a long time, but I think that's a pretty safe presumption. Accepting a general sequence instead of only a list would reasonable, and I'd support a fix that caused the code to accept a general sequence

[issue15474] Differentiate decorator and decorator factory in docs

Fred L. Drake, Jr. added the comment: I like Éric's terminology; giving a concrete name to the concept makes it a lot easier to grasp, and this doesn't require inventing any new component terms. Andrés, if you'd like to tackle this, that's great! I'd be happy to for you to bounce drafts

[issue33869] doc Add set, frozen set, and tuple entries to Glossary

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[issue33832] Make "magic methods" a little more discoverable in the docs

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[issue33832] Make "magic methods" a little more discoverable in the docs

Fred L. Drake, Jr. added the comment: Indeed, I did not. Fixed now. I hope. -- nosy: +rhettinger ___ Python tracker <https://bugs.python.org/issue33

[issue33832] Make "magic methods" a little more discoverable in the docs

Fred L. Drake, Jr. added the comment: A quick grep on the 3.7 branch indicates that the standard documentation includes each of the terms "magic method" and "special method" about the same number of times. (I didn't check for instances that wrapped lines.) Perhaps we s

[issue33274] minidom removeAttributeNode returns None

Fred L. Drake, Jr. added the comment: > I saw what looked to me like a bug that's been in the code for 18 years, > and I saw that it was a simple fix. And you're right: It is a bug, the fix is simple, and the risk is low. Ten years ago, I'd have probably just landed the fix

[issue33274] minidom removeAttributeNode returns None

Fred L. Drake, Jr. added the comment: New changeset 5bfa058e65897567889354d7eb34af2b93a20f18 by Fred Drake (arikrupnik) in branch 'master': bpo-33274: Compliance with DOM L1: return removed attribute (#7465) https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/5bfa058e65897567889354d7eb34af2b93a20f18

[issue33274] minidom removeAttributeNode returns None

Fred L. Drake, Jr. added the comment: I should stop relying on wetware memory; it's not working out. Sorry for the mis-information. -- ___ Python tracker <https://bugs.python.org/issue33

[issue33274] minidom removeAttributeNode returns None

Fred L. Drake, Jr. added the comment: Python 2.7 is in security-fix-only mode, and this doesn't fit that. While I wouldn't object to a note in the documentation, see my comments in my patch review (there's just no place for it to go

[issue33274] minidom removeAttributeNode returns None

Fred L. Drake, Jr. <fdr...@gmail.com> added the comment: While I've no strong objection to updating to follow the specification, I also don't see any real value here. The current minidom implementation has been considered sufficient for many years now (if you consider the DOM des

[issue1644818] Allow built-in packages and submodules as well as top-level modules

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[issue32706] test_check_hostname() of test_ftplib started to fail randomly

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[issue32143] os.statvfs lacks f_fsid

Fred L. Drake, Jr. <fdr...@gmail.com> added the comment: This has landed on master and will be part of Python 3.7. -- resolution: -> fixed stage: patch review -> resolved status: open -> closed ___ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.

[issue32143] os.statvfs lacks f_fsid

Fred L. Drake, Jr. <fdr...@gmail.com> added the comment: New changeset 96a5e50a5de3683b2afd6d680c7ecc4b525986f6 by Fred Drake (Giuseppe Scrivano) in branch 'master': bpo-32143: add f_fsid to os.statvfs() (#4571) https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/96a5e50a5de3683b2afd6d680c7ecc4b52

[issue32143] os.statvfs lacks f_fsid

Fred L. Drake, Jr. <fdr...@gmail.com> added the comment: I think Giuseppe's patch is good, but there's a Windows failure on AppVeyor, so I'm a little wary. It doesn't look related, but I haven't looked at Python on Windows since... 2001,

[issue32143] os.statvfs lacks f_fsid

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[issue31803] Remove not portable time.clock(), replaced by time.perf_counter() and time.process_time()

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[issue31766] Python 3.5 missing from documentation

Fred L. Drake, Jr. <fdr...@gmail.com> added the comment: The 3.5 docs should really remain in the main docs UI via the pulldown as long as it's so widely used. The fact that it won't be changing much just means it can be served efficiently. -- nosy: +

[issue29400] Add instruction level tracing via sys.settrace

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[issue31055] All Sphinx generated pages could have a new "Edit This Page" link adjacent to the existing "Show Source"

Fred L. Drake, Jr. added the comment: On Thu, Jul 27, 2017 at 3:01 PM, Fred L. Drake, Jr. <rep...@bugs.python.org> wrote: > If the link went to an edit form with the version of the content the > user was reading, > and includes an explanation of the multiple-versions issue, i

[issue31055] All Sphinx generated pages could have a new "Edit This Page" link adjacent to the existing "Show Source"

Fred L. Drake, Jr. added the comment: On Thu, Jul 27, 2017 at 1:03 PM, Mariatta Wijaya <rep...@bugs.python.org> wrote: > I don't think we should add this link. > > When we make edits to the docs, even simple typo fixes, it should first be > done > in the m

[issue9883] minidom: AttributeError: DocumentFragment instance has no attribute 'writexml'

Fred L. Drake, Jr. added the comment: I agree that writexml should be available for document fragments. I doubt the additional level of indentation should be added, as you've included in point 2. -- nosy: +fdrake ___ Python tracker <

[issue29996] Use terminal width by default in pprint

Fred L. Drake, Jr. added the comment: I wouldn't go so far as to say it's never come up; it's something I've thought about a number of times, and I've waffled on it a few times. It's not fundamentally unreasonable to want it to adapt to the current terminal window, though I think it would

[issue29996] Use terminal width by default in pprint

Fred L. Drake, Jr. added the comment: This is not a problem for doctests, since the output stream is not a terminal; the check for terminal-ness seems reasonable. (Though I don't have any idea if it works on Windows, but it seems properly factored

[issue29997] Suggested changes for https://docs.python.org/3.6/extending/extending.html

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[issue27879] add os.syncfs()

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[issue9285] Add a profile decorator to profile and cProfile

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[issue29601] Need reST markup for enum types

Fred L. Drake, Jr. added the comment: Is there some special treatment you think should be given to specific enum values as well? -- nosy: +fdrake ___ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/i

[issue28617] Why isn't "in" called a comparison operation?

Fred L. Drake, Jr. added the comment: "in" and "not in" are not comparisons, regardless of implementation mechanics (which could change). They aren't really dependent on iteration, though they often correlate with iteration. I'd rather see them described as "contai

[issue19795] Formatting of True/False/None in docs

Fred L. Drake, Jr. added the comment: Without the star would be right. ReST does not support nested markup, and in this case, I don't think it would make sense anyway. -- nosy: +fdrake ___ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org>

[issue28278] Make `weakref.WeakKeyDictionary.__repr__` meaningful

Fred L. Drake, Jr. added the comment: I don't recall that the issues discussed here were considered when these classes were added; functionality was the issue at the time. I'm not particularly opposed to adding a more data-ful repr for the weakref-oriented mappings, but I'm not really

[issue27495] Pretty printing sorting for set and frozenset instances

Fred L. Drake, Jr. added the comment: +1 It could reasonably be argued that not sorting is a bug for already-released 3.x versions. -- ___ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/i

[issue18085] Verifying refcounts.dat

Fred L. Drake, Jr. added the comment: I don't think this is a duplicate of issue 9755; this relates to verifying the data, and that revolves around possible process improvements. Whether this issue should be closed is tied to whether the file has been verified, as the issue title suggests. I

[issue9755] Fix refcounting details in Py3k C API documentation

Fred L. Drake, Jr. added the comment: As mentioned in issue 18085, the original file was not generated, but crafted by hand (though I don't think that really matters). -- ___ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/

[issue23116] Python Tutorial 4.7.1: Improve ask_ok() to cover more input values

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[issue26526] In parsermodule.c, replace over 2KLOC of hand-crafted validation code, with a DFA

Fred L. Drake, Jr. added the comment: I've read through this, but haven't applied the patch & run tests (that's what buildbots are for). No objections. -- ___ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.o

[issue26526] In parsermodule.c, replace over 2KLOC of hand-crafted validation code, with a DFA

Fred L. Drake, Jr. added the comment: I see your message to python-dev, and apologize for taking so long to get to this. I do intend to read through your changes, and hope to be able to make time while I'm at PyCon this coming week. -- ___ Python

[issue26247] Document Chrome/Chromium for python2.7

Fred L. Drake, Jr. added the comment: LGTM Thanks for getting this documented! -- ___ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/i

[issue26247] Document Chrome/Chromium for python2.7

Fred L. Drake, Jr. added the comment: Sorry; I guess I wasn't clear. ``versionadded::`` and ``versionchanged::`` are applied to specific API points (modules, classes, methods, attributes) that are identified structurally in the documentation. That isn't the case for this. While a bit

[issue26247] Document Chrome/Chromium for python2.7

Fred L. Drake, Jr. added the comment: The ``versionadded::`` directive should only be used to annotate descriptions of new API entries. While it would be correctly applied to the ``Chrome`` and ``Chromium`` classes, those are not separately documented here, but are only listed in the table

[issue26366] Use “.. versionadded” over “.. versionchanged” where appropriate

Fred L. Drake, Jr. added the comment: For anyone following along only via the tracker, it's worth noting that proposals for new markup are welcome on the docs mailing list. More information is available at: https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/docs

[issue26366] Use “.. versionadded” over “.. versionchanged” where appropriate

Fred L. Drake, Jr. added the comment: If no one is planning to propose specific new markup for more fine-grained version annotations, this issue can be closed. -- ___ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/i

[issue26366] Use “.. versionadded” over “.. versionchanged” where appropriate

Fred L. Drake, Jr. added the comment: Another reason to value the status-quo in this case is that this isn't just a matter for the Python documentation; it's about the recommended usage for the markup, which is used by many other packages. Questions that should be discussed include: 1. Should

[issue26366] Use “.. versionadded” over “.. versionchanged” where appropriate

Fred L. Drake, Jr. added the comment: On Fri, Feb 19, 2016 at 10:02 AM, Tony R. <rep...@bugs.python.org> wrote: > Holy crap! You all used to use LaTeX?! :D Python's documentation has a long & colorful history. :-) > Well then, if this is the sort of place where the stat

[issue26094] ConfigParser.get() doc to be updated according to the configparser.py header doc

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[issue26124] shlex.quote and pipes.quote do not quote shell keywords

Fred L. Drake, Jr. added the comment: It's not at all obvious that the intention is to ensure such an argument should be treated only as a command external to the shell. If an application really wants to ensure the command is not handled as a shell built-in, it should use shell=False. Making

[issue24067] Weakproxy is an instance of collections.Iterator

Fred L. Drake, Jr. added the comment: Clearly I've been away from this code for a long time. The hash support for ref objects is definitely a very special case, only intended to support WeakKeyDictionary. We that class implemented in C, we'd probably want the hash support for refs

[issue24067] Weakproxy is an instance of collections.Iterator

Fred L. Drake, Jr. added the comment: I don't see any reason for proxy objects to be less hashable than ref objects. As for the p == p case, where the referent has expired, returning True if p is p seems acceptable (along with False inequalities, and True for other comparisons allowing

[issue24067] Weakproxy is an instance of collections.Iterator

Fred L. Drake, Jr. added the comment: ref objects behave differently: they inherit their referent's hash value when alive, and remember it. proxy objects could be made to behave the same way. They could, yes, but that would break the proxy behavior, and the hash -- equality behavior

[issue22721] pprint output for sets and dicts is not stable

Fred L. Drake, Jr. added the comment: Sorry for the delay. pprint_safe_key.patch looks good to me. -- ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue22721

[issue2174] xml.sax.xmlreader does not support the InputSource protocol

Fred L. Drake, Jr. added the comment: Given that this has languished this long, patching historical releases seems pointless. -- status: open - closed ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue2174

[issue7434] general pprint rewrite

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[issue2292] Missing *-unpacking generalizations

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[issue22721] pprint output for sets and dicts is not stable

Fred L. Drake, Jr. added the comment: Sorting by the repr sounds good, but if some dict keys or set members are strings containing single-quotes, the primary sort will be on the type of quote used for the repr, which would be surprising and significantly less useful

[issue22721] pprint output for sets and dicts is not stable

Fred L. Drake, Jr. added the comment: Stability in output order from pprint is very useful in doctests (yes, some people write documentation that they test). I think fixing any output stability issues would be very worthwhile. -- ___ Python tracker

[issue19100] Use backslashreplace in pprint

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[issue19504] Change customise to customize.

Fred L. Drake, Jr. added the comment: Not a foolish consistency; Guido ruled long ago that American spellings should be used. -- nosy: +fdrake ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue19504

[issue18840] Tutorial recommends pickle module without any warning of insecurity

Fred L. Drake, Jr. added the comment: Advising the reader to be aware of the security warnings in the API documentation seems sufficient. JSON isn't intended to support arbitrary data, and that's what this section is discussing. Another section about data interchange with other applications

[issue18840] Tutorial recommends pickle module without any warning of insecurity

Fred L. Drake, Jr. added the comment: When I read ... that can take almost any Python object ..., I don't think the recommendation is about just a few types. The Zope and ZODB communities certainly use pickle extensively, we're aware of the security implications, and we send pickled data

[issue18840] Tutorial recommends pickle module without any warning of insecurity

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[issue18501] _elementtree.c calls Python callbacks while a Python exception is set

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[issue17987] test.support.captured_stderr, captured_stdin not documented

Fred L. Drake, Jr. added the comment: From v5 of the patch: + A context managers that temporarily replaces the :data:`sys.stdin` / + :data:`sys.stdout` / :data:`sys.stderr` stream with :class:`io.StringIO` + object. I'd go with singular nouns instead of trying to map across them

[issue17987] test.support.captured_stderr, captured_stdin not documented

Fred L. Drake, Jr. added the comment: Joining the documentation for captured_stderr and captured_stdout makes sense, as they can really use a single example, and the usage is completely parallel. I'd rather see captured_stdin handled separately, perhaps with some additional comments

[issue17987] test.support.captured_stderr, captured_stdin not documented

Fred L. Drake, Jr. added the comment: +1 for issue17987_4.patch Thanks, Dmi! -- ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue17987

[issue18085] Verifying refcounts.dat

Fred L. Drake, Jr. added the comment: I'm a little surprised that still exists. The first version was generated manually. -- nosy: +fdrake ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue18085

[issue18085] Verifying refcounts.dat

Fred L. Drake, Jr. added the comment: Were I adding that today, I'd use a more verbose (but more standard) format, like configparser or JSON. If any further use is going to be made of it, that should be considered. Colon-delimited is a pretty fragile format

[issue17995] report，中　高　层　管　理　技　能158766

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[issue17987] test.support.captured_stderr, captured_stdin not documented

New submission from Fred L. Drake, Jr.: The captured_stderr and captured_stdin context managers aren't documented, and should be. -- assignee: docs@python components: Documentation keywords: easy messages: 189311 nosy: docs@python, fdrake priority: normal severity: normal stage: needs

[issue17950] Dynamic classes contain non-breakable reference cycles

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[issue17868] pprint long non-printable bytes as hexdump

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[issue17571] broken links on Lib/datetime.py docstring

Fred L. Drake, Jr. added the comment: Let's just update the docstring: Concrete date/time and related types. See also http://dir.yahoo.com/Reference/calendars/ For a primer on DST, including many current DST rules, see http://webexhibits.org/daylightsaving/ Sources for time zone and DST data

[issue2175] Expat sax parser silently ignores the InputSource protocol

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[issue17150] pprint could use line continuation for long string literals

Fred L. Drake, Jr. added the comment: I like this. It would be especially nice if it were smart enough to split the segments after sequences of line-ends (r'(\r?\n)+'). -- ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue17150

[issue16240] Document a way to escape metacharacters in glob/fnmatch

Fred L. Drake, Jr. added the comment: Better (IMO): Wrap the meta-characters in brackets for a literal match. For example, ``'[?]'`` matches the character ``'?'``. -- nosy: +fdrake ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org

[issue15120] Different behavior of html.parser.HTMLParser

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[issue14009] Clearer documentation for cElementTree

Fred L. Drake, Jr. f...@fdrake.net added the comment: Developers with existing code can reasonably be expected to look it up based on what they're currently importing, so an entry that points to the new recommended practice is good. -- nosy: +fdrake

[issue11379] Remove lightweight from minidom description

Fred L. Drake, Jr. f...@fdrake.net added the comment: Removing Lightweight and changing the first paragraph to (something like) :mod:`xml.dom.minidom` is an implementation of the Document Object Model interface. The API is slightly simpler than the full W3C DOM, but the implementation has

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