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Also the parameters the functions accept are different.
Function Reference
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``parse(filename_url_or_file)``:
Parses the named file or url, or if the object has a ``.read()``
method, parses from that.
``document_fromstring(html, guess_charset=True)``:
Parses a document from the given string. This always creates a
correct HTML document, which means the parent node is ````,
and there is a body and possibly a head.
If a bytestring is passed and ``guess_charset`` is true the chardet
library (if installed) will guess the charset if ambiguities exist.
``fragment_fromstring(string, create_parent=False, guess_charset=False)``:
Returns an HTML fragment from a string. The fragment must contain
just a single element, unless ``create_parent`` is given;
e.g., ``fragment_fromstring(string, create_parent='div')`` will
wrap the element in a `` ``. If ``create_parent`` is true the
default parent tag (div) is used.
If a bytestring is passed and ``guess_charset`` is true the chardet
library (if installed) will guess the charset if ambiguities exist.
``fragments_fromstring(string, no_leading_text=False, parser=None)``:
Returns a list of the elements found in the fragment. The first item in
the list may be a string. If ``no_leading_text`` is true, then it will
be an error if there is leading text, and it will always be a list of
only elements.
If a bytestring is passed and ``guess_charset`` is true the chardet
library (if installed) will guess the charset if ambiguities exist.
``fromstring(string)``:
Returns ``document_fromstring`` or ``fragment_fromstring``, based
on whether the string looks like a full document, or just a
fragment.
Additionally all parsing functions accept an ``parser`` keyword argument
that can be set to a custom parser instance. To create custom parsers
you can subclass the ``HTMLParser`` and ``XHTMLParser`` from the same
module. Note that these are the parser classes provided by html5lib.
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