UniCoreFW

is_element()

Check if obj is a DOM element (ElementTree.Element in Python).

Implementation

Args: obj: The object to check Returns: True if obj is an Element, False otherwise

Example

from xml.etree.ElementTree import Element is_element(Element("foo"))

Expected output: True

Source Code

def is_element(obj: Any) -> bool: try: from xml.etree.ElementTree import Element return isinstance(obj, Element) except ImportError: return False