8.6.3.1 Type Mapping

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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