'The base class for Text, Comment and Element.
All DOM nodes can be navigated in the same way (e.g. Node.parent, Node.children, ...)'

def __init__(self, html, type=NODE, **kwargs):

    self.type = type
    self._p = (((not isinstance(html, SOUP)) and BeautifulSoup.BeautifulSoup(u(html), **kwargs)) or html)
