Python in a Nutshell

Name

start_tag

Synopsis

                     s.start_tag(attributes)

X supplies a method thus named for each tag, with an end tag, that X wants to process. tag must be in lowercase in the method name, but can be in any mix of cases in the parsed text. SGMLParser’s handle_tag method calls start_ tag as appropriate. attributes is a list of pairs ( name,value ), where name is each attribute’s name, lowercased, and value is the value, processed to resolve entity references and character references and to remove surrounding quotes.