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| -rw-r--r-- | src/lxml/lxml.etree.pyx | 3 |
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diff --git a/src/lxml/lxml.etree.pyx b/src/lxml/lxml.etree.pyx index 9fac92a9..9fd555dd 100644 --- a/src/lxml/lxml.etree.pyx +++ b/src/lxml/lxml.etree.pyx @@ -3473,6 +3473,9 @@ def adopt_external_document(capsule, _BaseParser parser=None): without creating a copy first, and the capsule destructor will not be called. The document will then eventually be cleaned up by lxml using the libxml2 API function ``xmlFreeDoc()`` once it is no longer used. + + If no copy is made, later modifications of the tree outside of lxml + should not be attempted after transferring the ownership. """ if python.PY_VERSION_HEX < 0x02070000: raise NotImplementedError("PyCapsule usage requires Python 2.7+") |