On Sat, Dec 22, 2012 at 6:57 PM, Pierre Quentel <pierre.quen...@gmail.com> wrote: > I was over-simplifying - or, to put is less diplomatically, I screwed up - > when I answered that the addition returned a string. As Chris pointed out, it > made the explanation very confusing. My apologies > > The objects handled by + and <= can be : > - strings, integers, floats > - instances of $TagClass instances (more precisely, of classes copied from > $TagClass, one for each HTML tag) : they are wrappers around a DOM element. > The DOM element itself is the attribute "elt" of the $TagClass instance > - the document, represented by the keyword doc. Its attribute "elt" is the > document (top of the DOM tree) > - instances of $AbstractClass, a container with a list of DOM elements. This > list is the attribute "children" of the $TagClass instance
Ah! Okay, that makes a LOT more sense. Still, it tends to be a lot harder to explain, document, and read documentation for, something that uses operators weirdly, rather than keyword-searchable method names. ChrisA -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
