def remove_unlikely_candidates()

in readability/readability.py [0:0]

• 12 lines of code
• 6 McCabe index (conditional complexity)

    def remove_unlikely_candidates(self):
        for elem in self.html.findall(".//*"):
            s = "%s %s" % (elem.get("class", ""), elem.get("id", ""))
            if len(s) < 2:
                continue
            if (
                REGEXES["unlikelyCandidatesRe"].search(s)
                and (not REGEXES["okMaybeItsACandidateRe"].search(s))
                and elem.tag not in ["html", "body"]
            ):
                log.debug("Removing unlikely candidate - %s" % describe(elem))
                elem.drop_tree()