def _parse()

in readability/readability.py [0:0]

• 24 lines of code
• 5 McCabe index (conditional complexity)

    def _parse(self, input):
        if isinstance(input, (_ElementTree, HtmlElement)):
            doc = input
            self.encoding = 'utf-8'
        else:
            doc, self.encoding = build_doc(input)
        doc = html_cleaner.clean_html(doc)
        base_href = self.url
        if base_href:
            # trying to guard against bad links like <a href="http://[http://...">
            try:
                # such support is added in lxml 3.3.0
                doc.make_links_absolute(
                    base_href,
                    resolve_base_href=True,
                    handle_failures=self.handle_failures,
                )
            except TypeError:  # make_links_absolute() got an unexpected keyword argument 'handle_failures'
                # then we have lxml < 3.3.0
                # please upgrade to lxml >= 3.3.0 if you're failing here!
                doc.make_links_absolute(
                    base_href,
                    resolve_base_href=True,
                    handle_failures=self.handle_failures,
                )
        else:
            doc.resolve_base_href(handle_failures=self.handle_failures)
        return doc