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authorStefan Behnel <stefan_ml@behnel.de>2014-12-06 21:05:00 +0100
committerStefan Behnel <stefan_ml@behnel.de>2014-12-06 21:05:00 +0100
commit8bbadc250fb838c79ad9dcce758befc1c4f30664 (patch)
tree1106640e26846b9db2c6d145fd2d14affe6833be /src/lxml/html
parent44ec7b535d1a342b3c4b6070ebd2a4c3e29595f7 (diff)
downloadpython-lxml-8bbadc250fb838c79ad9dcce758befc1c4f30664.tar.gz
clarify docs: lxml.html.fragment_fromstring(create_parent=True) allows multiple elements as parse result
Diffstat (limited to 'src/lxml/html')
-rw-r--r--src/lxml/html/__init__.py10
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/src/lxml/html/__init__.py b/src/lxml/html/__init__.py
index a3ad82a7..95a0ab4c 100644
--- a/src/lxml/html/__init__.py
+++ b/src/lxml/html/__init__.py
@@ -666,11 +666,13 @@ def fragment_fromstring(html, create_parent=False, base_url=None,
one element, or if anything but whitespace precedes or follows the
element.
- If create_parent is true (or is a tag name) then a parent node
- will be created to encapsulate the HTML in a single element. In
- this case, leading or trailing text is allowed.
+ If ``create_parent`` is true (or is a tag name) then a parent node
+ will be created to encapsulate the HTML in a single element. In this
+ case, leading or trailing text is also allowed, as are multiple elements
+ as result of the parsing.
- base_url will set the document's base_url attribute (and the tree's docinfo.URL)
+ Passing a ``base_url`` will set the document's ``base_url`` attribute
+ (and the tree's docinfo.URL).
"""
if parser is None:
parser = html_parser