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| -rw-r--r-- | Doc/includes/minidom-example.py | 6 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Doc/library/xml.dom.minidom.rst | 22 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Doc/library/zlib.rst | 8 |
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diff --git a/Doc/includes/minidom-example.py b/Doc/includes/minidom-example.py index c30c4e08a9..4bca949f71 100644 --- a/Doc/includes/minidom-example.py +++ b/Doc/includes/minidom-example.py @@ -19,11 +19,11 @@ document = """\ dom = xml.dom.minidom.parseString(document) def getText(nodelist): - rc = "" + rc = [] for node in nodelist: if node.nodeType == node.TEXT_NODE: - rc = rc + node.data - return rc + rc.append(node.data) + return ''.join(rc) def handleSlideshow(slideshow): print "<html>" diff --git a/Doc/library/xml.dom.minidom.rst b/Doc/library/xml.dom.minidom.rst index cb49c023fa..cfde5b908a 100644 --- a/Doc/library/xml.dom.minidom.rst +++ b/Doc/library/xml.dom.minidom.rst @@ -85,22 +85,12 @@ document: the one that holds all others. Here is an example program:: dom3 = parseString("<myxml>Some data</myxml>") assert dom3.documentElement.tagName == "myxml" -When you are finished with a DOM, you should clean it up. This is necessary -because some versions of Python do not support garbage collection of objects -that refer to each other in a cycle. Until this restriction is removed from all -versions of Python, it is safest to write your code as if cycles would not be -cleaned up. - -The way to clean up a DOM is to call its :meth:`unlink` method:: - - dom1.unlink() - dom2.unlink() - dom3.unlink() - -:meth:`unlink` is a :mod:`xml.dom.minidom`\ -specific extension to the DOM API. -After calling :meth:`unlink` on a node, the node and its descendants are -essentially useless. - +When you are finished with a DOM tree, you may optionally call the +:meth:`unlink` method to encourage early cleanup of the now-unneeded +objects. :meth:`unlink` is a :mod:`xml.dom.minidom`\ -specific +extension to the DOM API that renders the node and its descendants are +essentially useless. Otherwise, Python's garbage collector will +eventually take care of the objects in the tree. .. seealso:: diff --git a/Doc/library/zlib.rst b/Doc/library/zlib.rst index 17e63f1cec..011870425f 100644 --- a/Doc/library/zlib.rst +++ b/Doc/library/zlib.rst @@ -115,14 +115,18 @@ The available exception and functions in this module are: Decompresses the data in *string*, returning a string containing the uncompressed data. The *wbits* parameter controls the size of the window - buffer. If *bufsize* is given, it is used as the initial size of the output + buffer, and is discussed further below. + If *bufsize* is given, it is used as the initial size of the output buffer. Raises the :exc:`error` exception if any error occurs. The absolute value of *wbits* is the base two logarithm of the size of the history buffer (the "window size") used when compressing data. Its absolute value should be between 8 and 15 for the most recent versions of the zlib library, larger values resulting in better compression at the expense of greater - memory usage. The default value is 15. When *wbits* is negative, the standard + memory usage. When decompressing a stream, *wbits* must not be smaller + than the size originally used to compress the stream; using a too-small + value will result in an exception. The default value is therefore the + highest value, 15. When *wbits* is negative, the standard :program:`gzip` header is suppressed. *bufsize* is the initial size of the buffer used to hold decompressed data. If |