Method close

Lib/xml/etree/ElementTree.py:1731–1746

Finish feeding data to parser and return element structure.

(self)

            self._raiseerror(v)

    def close(self):
        """Finish feeding data to parser and return element structure."""
        try:
            self.parser.Parse(b"", True) # end of data
        except self._error as v:
            self._raiseerror(v)
        try:
            close_handler = self.target.close
        except AttributeError:
            pass
        else:
            return close_handler()
        finally:
            # get rid of circular references
            del self.parser, self._parser
            del self.target, self._target

    def flush(self):
        was_enabled = self.parser.GetReparseDeferralEnabled()