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47 Class _XPathEvaluatorBase
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64 <h1 class="epydoc">Class _XPathEvaluatorBase</h1><p class="nomargin-top"></p>
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68 <strong class="uidshort">_XPathEvaluatorBase</strong>
71 <dl><dt>Known Subclasses:</dt>
73 <ul class="subclass-list">
74 <li><a href="lxml.etree.XPath-class.html">XPath</a></li><li class="private">, <a href="lxml.etree.XPathElementEvaluator-class.html" onclick="show_private();">XPathElementEvaluator</a></li> </ul>
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136 <td><span class="summary-sig"><a href="lxml.etree._XPathEvaluatorBase-class.html#evaluate" class="summary-sig-name">evaluate</a>(<span class="summary-sig-arg">self</span>,
137 <span class="summary-sig-arg">_eval_arg</span>,
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139 Evaluate an XPath expression.</td>
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281 <p>Evaluate an XPath expression.</p>
282 <p>Instead of calling this method, you can also call the evaluator object
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