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64 <h1 class="epydoc">Class iterwalk</h1><p class="nomargin-top"></p>
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68 <strong class="uidshort">iterwalk</strong>
72 <p>iterwalk(self, element_or_tree, events=("end",), tag=None)</p>
73 <p>A tree walker that generates events from an existing tree as if it
74 was parsing XML data with <tt class="rst-docutils literal">iterparse()</tt>.</p>
75 <p>Just as for <tt class="rst-docutils literal">iterparse()</tt>, the <tt class="rst-docutils literal">tag</tt> argument can be a single tag or a
77 <p>After receiving a 'start' or 'start-ns' event, the children and
78 descendants of the current element can be excluded from iteration
79 by calling the <tt class="rst-docutils literal">skip_subtree()</tt> method.</p>
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104 <td><span class="summary-sig"><a href="lxml.etree.iterwalk-class.html#__init__" class="summary-sig-name">__init__</a>(<span class="summary-sig-arg">self</span>,
105 <span class="summary-sig-arg">element_or_tree</span>,
106 <span class="summary-sig-arg">events</span>=<span class="summary-sig-default">("end"</span>,
107 <span class="summary-sig-arg">)</span>,
108 <span class="summary-sig-arg">tag</span>=<span class="summary-sig-default">None</span>)</span><br />
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125 <td><span class="summary-sig"><a name="__iter__"></a><span class="summary-sig-name">__iter__</span>(<span class="summary-sig-arg">x</span>)</span><br />
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138 <span class="summary-type">a new object with type S, a subtype of T</span>
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172 <span class="summary-type">the next value, or raise StopIteration</span>
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193 Prevent descending into the current subtree.
194 Instead, the next returned event will be the 'end' event of the current element
195 (if included), ignoring any children or descendants.</td>
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207 <p class="indent-wrapped-lines"><b>Inherited from <code>object</code></b>:
208 <code>__delattr__</code>,
209 <code>__format__</code>,
210 <code>__getattribute__</code>,
211 <code>__hash__</code>,
212 <code>__reduce__</code>,
213 <code>__reduce_ex__</code>,
214 <code>__repr__</code>,
215 <code>__setattr__</code>,
216 <code>__sizeof__</code>,
217 <code>__str__</code>,
218 <code>__subclasshook__</code>
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332 <p>Prevent descending into the current subtree.
333 Instead, the next returned event will be the 'end' event of the current element
334 (if included), ignoring any children or descendants.</p>
335 <p>This has no effect right after an 'end' or 'end-ns' event.</p>
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