summaryrefslogtreecommitdiff
path: root/beautifulsoup/element.py
diff options
context:
space:
mode:
Diffstat (limited to 'beautifulsoup/element.py')
-rw-r--r--beautifulsoup/element.py19
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/beautifulsoup/element.py b/beautifulsoup/element.py
index 6101641..6fc3fbe 100644
--- a/beautifulsoup/element.py
+++ b/beautifulsoup/element.py
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ except ImportError:
name2codepoint = {}
from beautifulsoup.dammit import EntitySubstitution
-from util import isString, isList
+from util import isList
DEFAULT_OUTPUT_ENCODING = "utf-8"
@@ -557,7 +557,7 @@ class Tag(PageElement, EntitySubstitution):
"""Returns true iff this tag has the same name, the same attributes,
and the same contents (recursively) as the given tag.
- NOTE: right now this will return false if two tags have the
+ XXX: right now this will return false if two tags have the
same attributes in a different order. Should this be fixed?"""
if not hasattr(other, 'name') or not hasattr(other, 'attrs') or not hasattr(other, 'contents') or self.name != other.name or self.attrs != other.attrs or len(self) != len(other):
return False
@@ -596,14 +596,14 @@ class Tag(PageElement, EntitySubstitution):
if val is None:
decoded = key
else:
- if not isString(val):
+ if not isinstance(val, basestring):
val = str(val)
if (self.contains_substitutions
and eventualEncoding is not None
and '%SOUP-ENCODING%' in val):
val = self.substituteEncoding(val, eventualEncoding)
- # Set destination_is_xml based on something...
+ # XXX: Set destination_is_xml based on... something!
decoded = key + '=' + self.substitute_xml(val, True, False)
attrs.append(decoded)
close = ''
@@ -755,7 +755,7 @@ class SoupStrainer(object):
def __init__(self, name=None, attrs={}, text=None, **kwargs):
self.name = name
- if isString(attrs):
+ if isinstance(attrs, basestring):
kwargs['class'] = attrs
attrs = None
if kwargs:
@@ -828,7 +828,7 @@ class SoupStrainer(object):
found = self.searchTag(markup)
# If it's text, make sure the text matches.
elif isinstance(markup, NavigableString) or \
- isString(markup):
+ isinstance(markup, basestring):
if self._matches(markup, self.text):
found = markup
else:
@@ -848,18 +848,19 @@ class SoupStrainer(object):
#other ways of matching match the tag name as a string.
if isinstance(markup, Tag):
markup = markup.name
- if markup is not None and not isString(markup):
+ if markup is not None and not isinstance(markup, basestring):
markup = unicode(markup)
#Now we know that chunk is either a string, or None.
if hasattr(matchAgainst, 'match'):
# It's a regexp object.
result = markup and matchAgainst.search(markup)
elif (isList(matchAgainst)
- and (markup is not None or not isString(matchAgainst))):
+ and (markup is not None
+ or not isinstance(matchAgainst, basestring))):
result = markup in matchAgainst
elif hasattr(matchAgainst, 'items'):
result = markup.has_key(matchAgainst)
- elif matchAgainst and isString(markup):
+ elif matchAgainst and isinstance(markup, basestring):
if isinstance(markup, unicode):
matchAgainst = unicode(matchAgainst)
else: