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Diffstat (limited to 'bs4/builder/__init__.py')
| -rw-r--r-- | bs4/builder/__init__.py | 20 |
1 files changed, 16 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/bs4/builder/__init__.py b/bs4/builder/__init__.py index 9dad920..c5e6e84 100644 --- a/bs4/builder/__init__.py +++ b/bs4/builder/__init__.py @@ -100,11 +100,23 @@ class TreeBuilder(object): USE_DEFAULT = object() - def __init__(self, cdata_list_attributes=USE_DEFAULT): + def __init__(self, multi_valued_attributes=USE_DEFAULT): + """Constructor. + + :param multi_valued_attributes: If this is set to None, the + TreeBuilder will not turn any values for attributes like + 'class' into lists. Setting this do a dictionary will + customize this behavior; look at DEFAULT_CDATA_LIST_ATTRIBUTES + for an example. + + Internally, these are called "CDATA list attributes", but that + probably doesn't make sense to an end-use, so the argument ame + is `multi_valued_attributes`. + """ self.soup = None - if cdata_list_attributes is self.USE_DEFAULT: - cdata_list_attributes = self.DEFAULT_CDATA_LIST_ATTRIBUTES - self.cdata_list_attributes = cdata_list_attributes + if multi_valued_attributes is self.USE_DEFAULT: + multi_valued_attributes = self.DEFAULT_CDATA_LIST_ATTRIBUTES + self.cdata_list_attributes = multi_valued_attributes def initialize_soup(self, soup): """The BeautifulSoup object has been initialized and is now |