From: Martin v. Löwis <martin@v.loewis.de>
Date: Sat, 24 Nov 2007 18:33:40 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Bug #1494: Document that appendChild removes first.
X-Git-Tag: v2.6a1~999
X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=c8dfd588c21ca5326f1da3674102c1235a37a17f;p=python

Bug #1494: Document that appendChild removes first.
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diff --git a/Doc/library/xml.dom.rst b/Doc/library/xml.dom.rst
index d08eee60a2..5f0a9aa7e3 100644
--- a/Doc/library/xml.dom.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/xml.dom.rst
@@ -372,8 +372,9 @@ All of the components of an XML document are subclasses of :class:`Node`.
 
 .. method:: Node.appendChild(newChild)
 
-   Add a new child node to this node at the end of the list of children, returning
-   *newChild*.
+   Add a new child node to this node at the end of the list of
+   children, returning *newChild*. If the node was already in
+   in the tree, it is removed first.
 
 
 .. method:: Node.insertBefore(newChild, refChild)