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Diffstat (limited to 'xmlutils.py')
| -rw-r--r-- | xmlutils.py | 8 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/xmlutils.py b/xmlutils.py index 5a27f0f..a700945 100644 --- a/xmlutils.py +++ b/xmlutils.py @@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ This module contains useful functions for parsing and using XML data. For the moment, there is only one function that can parse the data inside a processing -instruction and return a Python dictionnary. +instruction and return a Python dictionary. :copyright: 2009 LOGILAB S.A. (Paris, FRANCE), all rights reserved. :contact: http://www.logilab.fr/ -- mailto:contact@logilab.fr @@ -18,8 +18,8 @@ RE_SIMPLE_QUOTE = re.compile("([\w\-\.]+)='([^']+)'") def parse_pi_data(pi_data): """ - Utilitary function that parses the data contained in an XML - processing instruction and returns a dictionnary of keywords and their + Utility function that parses the data contained in an XML + processing instruction and returns a dictionary of keywords and their associated values (most of the time, the processing instructions contain data like ``keyword="value"``, if a keyword is not associated to a value, for example ``keyword``, it will be associated to ``None``). @@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ def parse_pi_data(pi_data): :param pi_data: data contained in an XML processing instruction. :type pi_data: unicode - :returns: Dictionnary of the keywords (Unicode strings) associated to + :returns: Dictionary of the keywords (Unicode strings) associated to their values (Unicode strings) as they were defined in the data. :rtype: dict |