I often work with the lxml and my IDE (PyCharm 2021.2.2) warns me about accessing a protected member of the module in my type hints because many of my function use lxml.etree._Element as inputs or outputs. But as many functions of lxml.etree returns _Element objects I think it must be normal to use them. For example this code from lxml import etree root = etree.parse(r"C:\xmlfile.xml").getroot() print(type(root)) prints : <class 'lxml.etree._Element'> What should I do to get rid of those warnings ? Should I configure my IDE to ignore them or is there a cleaner way to make the type hints ? Continue reading...
