xml.dom.Document.getElementsByTagName()

Document.getElementsByTagName(tagName) Search for all descendants (direct children, children’s children, etc.) with a particular element type name.

gettext.NullTranslations._parse()

_parse(fp) No-op’d in the base class, this method takes file object fp, and reads the data from the file, initializing its message catalog. If you have an unsupported message catalog file format, you should override this method to parse your format.

str.istitle()

str.istitle() Return true if the string is a titlecased string and there is at least one character, for example uppercase characters may only follow uncased characters and lowercase characters only cased ones. Return false otherwise.

ctypes.py_object

class ctypes.py_object Represents the C PyObject * datatype. Calling this without an argument creates a NULL PyObject * pointer.

select.epoll.close()

epoll.close() Close the control file descriptor of the epoll object.

imaplib.IMAP4.response()

IMAP4.response(code) Return data for response code if received, or None. Returns the given code, instead of the usual type.

decimal.Decimal.next_toward()

next_toward(other, context=None) If the two operands are unequal, return the number closest to the first operand in the direction of the second operand. If both operands are numerically equal, return a copy of the first operand with the sign set to be the same as the sign of the second operand.

curses.flash()

curses.flash() Flash the screen. That is, change it to reverse-video and then change it back in a short interval. Some people prefer such as ‘visible bell’ to the audible attention signal produced by beep().

mailbox.MMDFMessage.get_from()

get_from() Return a string representing the “From ” line that marks the start of the message in an mbox mailbox. The leading “From ” and the trailing newline are excluded.

str.partition()

str.partition(sep) Split the string at the first occurrence of sep, and return a 3-tuple containing the part before the separator, the separator itself, and the part after the separator. If the separator is not found, return a 3-tuple containing the string itself, followed by two empty strings.