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| author | Leonard Richardson <leonardr@segfault.org> | 2020-01-01 13:30:28 -0500 |
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| committer | Leonard Richardson <leonardr@segfault.org> | 2020-01-01 13:30:28 -0500 |
| commit | 981c34917f44d96b5c7fa3314bcf39c772d12a61 (patch) | |
| tree | a42db5bee6974fe281d12fb8285cec6a50966471 /doc/source | |
| parent | a021fc8a1aac56aa4a75c68fee5c4cb6a0e68551 (diff) | |
API CHANGE - Added PageElement.decomposed, a new property which lets you
check whether you've already called decompose() on a Tag or
NavigableString.
Diffstat (limited to 'doc/source')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/source/index.rst | 17 |
1 files changed, 14 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/doc/source/index.rst b/doc/source/index.rst index baaf09c..3664612 100644 --- a/doc/source/index.rst +++ b/doc/source/index.rst @@ -97,7 +97,7 @@ data structure:: # Lacie # </a> # and - # <a class="sister" href="http://example.com/tillie" id="link2"> + # <a class="sister" href="http://example.com/tillie" id="link3"> # Tillie # </a> # ; and they lived at the bottom of a well. @@ -2067,12 +2067,23 @@ destroys it and its contents`:: markup = '<a href="http://example.com/">I linked to <i>example.com</i></a>' soup = BeautifulSoup(markup) a_tag = soup.a + i_tag = soup.i - soup.i.decompose() - + i_tag.decompose() a_tag # <a href="http://example.com/">I linked to</a> +The behavior of a decomposed ``Tag`` or ``NavigableString`` is not +defined and you should not use it for anything. If you're not sure +whether something has been decomposed, you can check its +``.decomposed`` property (new in 4.9.0):: + + i_tag.decomposed + # True + + a_tag.decomposed + # False + .. _replace_with(): |