Changeset 2 for trunk

Timestamp:

Mar 17, 2005, 11:40:26 AM (19 years ago)

Author:

mmc

Message:

Fixed the library.children() method to allow filtering
based on XML node type.

File:

• trunk/python/Rappture/library.py (modified) (2 diffs)

trunk/python/Rappture/library.py

@@ -73 +73 @@
 
     # ------------------------------------------------------------------
-    def children(self, path="", flavor="object"):
+    def children(self, path="", flavor="object", type=None):
         """
         Clients use this to query the children of a particular element
         within the entire data structure.  This is just like the
         element() method, but it returns the children of the element
-        instead of the element itself.
+        instead of the element itself.  If the optional type argument
+        is specified, then the return list is restricted to children
+        of the specified type.
 
         By default, this method returns a list of objects representing
@@ -93 +95 @@
 
         nlist = [n for n in node.childNodes if not n.nodeName.startswith('#')]
+
+        if type:
+            nlist = [n for n in nlist if n.nodeName == type]
 
         if flavor == 'object':