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| author | Leonard Richardson <leonardr@segfault.org> | 2021-12-21 12:57:04 -0500 |
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| committer | Leonard Richardson <leonardr@segfault.org> | 2021-12-21 12:57:04 -0500 |
| commit | 3ac8524a1263f170ae0a9096d255d3e28aa76340 (patch) | |
| tree | e6aab155135f553f3043a425dcf8e61884091919 /doc/source | |
| parent | 792a9e485e1b110534345a4f96fd65099879421e (diff) | |
It's now possible to customize the way output is indented by
providing a value for the 'indent' argument to the Formatter
constructor. The 'indent' argument works very similarly to the
argument of the same name in the Python standard library's
json.dump() method. [bug=1955497]
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| -rw-r--r-- | doc/source/index.rst | 8 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/doc/source/index.rst b/doc/source/index.rst index 66bd03e..67251e8 100644 --- a/doc/source/index.rst +++ b/doc/source/index.rst @@ -2331,6 +2331,14 @@ attribute value:: # A LINK # </a> +Here's a formatter that increases the indentation when pretty-printing:: + + formatter = HTMLFormatter(indent=8) + print(link_soup.a.prettify(formatter=formatter)) + # <a href="http://example.com/?foo=val1&bar=val2"> + # A link + # </a> + Subclassing ``HTMLFormatter`` or ``XMLFormatter`` will give you even more control over the output. For example, Beautiful Soup sorts the attributes in every tag by default:: |