genshi.output

Encode serializer output into a string.

Parameters:

iterator - the iterator returned from serializing a stream (basically any iterator that yields unicode objects)
method - the serialization method; determines how characters not representable in the specified encoding are treated
encoding - how the output string should be encoded; if set to None, this method returns a unicode object
out - a file-like object that the output should be written to instead of being returned as one big string; note that if this is a file or socket (or similar), the encoding must not be None (that is, the output must be encoded)

Returns:

a str or unicode object (depending on the encoding parameter), or None if the out parameter is provided

Since: version 0.4.1

Note: Changed in 0.5: added the out parameter

Return a serializer object for the given method.

Any additional keyword arguments are passed to the serializer, and thus depend on the method parameter value.

Parameters:

method - the serialization method; can be either "xml", "xhtml", "html", "text", or a custom serializer class

Since: version 0.4.1

Classes
	DocType Defines a number of commonly used DOCTYPE declarations as constants.
	XMLSerializer Produces XML text from an event stream.
	XHTMLSerializer Produces XHTML text from an event stream.
	HTMLSerializer Produces HTML text from an event stream.
	TextSerializer Produces plain text from an event stream.

Module output