nltk.toolbox.ToolboxSettings

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class ToolboxSettings(StandardFormat): (source)

This class is the base class for settings files.

Method	`__init__`	Undocumented
Method	`parse`	Return the contents of toolbox settings file with a nested structure.

Inherited from StandardFormat:

Method	`close`	Close a previously opened standard format marker file or string.
Method	`fields`	Return an iterator that returns the next field in a `(marker, value)` tuple, where `marker` and `value` are unicode strings if an `encoding` was specified in the `fields()` method. Otherwise they are non-unicode strings.
Method	`open`	Open a standard format marker file for sequential reading.
Method	`open_string`	Open a standard format marker string for sequential reading.
Method	`raw_fields`	Return an iterator that returns the next field in a (marker, value) tuple. Linebreaks and trailing white space are preserved except for the final newline in each field.
Instance Variable	`line_num`	Undocumented
Instance Variable	`_encoding`	Undocumented
Instance Variable	`_file`	Undocumented

overrides nltk.toolbox.StandardFormat.__init__

Undocumented

def parse(self, encoding=None, errors='strict', **kwargs): (source) ¶

Return the contents of toolbox settings file with a nested structure.

Parameters
encoding:str	encoding used by settings file
errors:str	Error handling scheme for codec. Same as `decode()` builtin method.
**kwargs:dict	Keyword arguments passed to `StandardFormat.fields()`
Returns
ElementTree._ElementInterface	Undocumented