The primitive IDL types used in the DOM specification are mapped to Python types according to the following table.
IDL Type | Python Type |
---|---|
boolean |
IntegerType (with a value of 0 or 1 ) |
int |
IntegerType |
long int |
IntegerType |
unsigned int |
IntegerType |
Additionally, the DOMString defined in the recommendation is mapped to a Python string or Unicode string. Applications should be able to handle Unicode whenever a string is returned from the DOM.
The IDL null value is mapped to None
, which may be
accepted or provided by the implementation whenever null is
allowed by the API.
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