Function parse

Lib/xml/dom/expatbuilder.py:896–911

Parse a document, returning the resulting Document node. 'file' may be either a file name or an open file object.

(file, namespaces=True)

def parse(file, namespaces=True):
    """Parse a document, returning the resulting Document node.

    'file' may be either a file name or an open file object.
    """
    if namespaces:
        builder = ExpatBuilderNS()
    else:
        builder = ExpatBuilder()

    if isinstance(file, str):
        with open(file, 'rb') as fp:
            result = builder.parseFile(fp)
    else:
        result = builder.parseFile(file)
    return result


def parseString(string, namespaces=True):