Mark Lawrence added the comment: This https://docs.python.org/3/library/xml.dom.minidom.html#module-xml.dom.minido... currently states under section 20.7.1 "The definition of the DOM API for Python is given as part of the xml.dom module documentation. This section lists the differences between the API and xml.dom.minidom.". The Document object is described here https://docs.python.org/3/library/xml.dom.html#document-objects ---------- nosy: +BreamoreBoy _______________________________________ Python tracker http://bugs.python.org/issue13743 _______________________________________

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Alex Itkes added the comment: Although the Document, Element, etc. classes are well documented in online docs, it is sometimes easier to use pydoc to view the documentation. I think documentation strings should be included to these classes. Just created a PR adding some docstrings. ---------- keywords: +patch message_count: 3.0 -> 4.0 nosy: +alexitkes nosy_count: 4.0 -> 5.0 pull_requests: +15938 stage: needs patch -> patch review versions: +Python 3.5, Python 3.6, Python 3.7, Python 3.8, Python 3.9 pull_request: https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/16335 _______________________________________ Python tracker https://bugs.python.org/issue13743 _______________________________________

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Stefan Behnel added the comment: A first PR was applied, but I'll leave this ticket open since it changes nothing for the "Document" class. :) ---------- versions: -Python 2.7, Python 3.2, Python 3.3, Python 3.5, Python 3.6, Python 3.7, Python 3.8 _______________________________________ Python tracker https://bugs.python.org/issue13743 _______________________________________