capybara/virtualenv/lib/python2.7/site-packages/lxml/html/html5parser.py
def parse(filename_url_or_file, guess_charset=True, parser=None):
    """Parse a filename, URL, or file-like object into an HTML document
    tree.  Note: this returns a tree, not an element.  Use
    ``parse(...).getroot()`` to get the document root.
    """
    if parser is None:
        parser = html_parser
    if not isinstance(filename_url_or_file, _strings):
        fp = filename_url_or_file
    elif _looks_like_url(filename_url_or_file):
        fp = urlopen(filename_url_or_file)
    else:
        fp = open(filename_url_or_file, 'rb')
    return parser.parse(fp, useChardet=guess_charset)
def parse(filename_url_or_file, guess_charset=True, parser=None):
    """Parse a filename, URL, or file-like object into an HTML document
    tree.  Note: this returns a tree, not an element.  Use
    ``parse(...).getroot()`` to get the document root.
    """
    if parser is None:
        parser = html_parser
    if not isinstance(filename_url_or_file, _strings):
        fp = filename_url_or_file
    elif _looks_like_url(filename_url_or_file):
        fp = urlopen(filename_url_or_file)
    else:
        fp = open(filename_url_or_file, 'rb')
    return parser.parse(fp, useChardet=guess_charset)
Parse a filename, URL, or file-like object into an HTML document
    tree.  Note: this returns a tree, not an element.  Use
    ``parse(...).getroot()`` to get the document root.