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title: “Scanner Class Documentation” date: 2025-06-28 layout: default —

Table of Contents

• 🔧 Class:Scanner
  • 🔹 Public:Methods
    • 🔹 new:Methods
    • 🔹 parse:Methods
    • 🔹 ungrouped:Methods
  • 🔒 Private:Methods
    • 🔒 ungrouped:Methods
  • ⚙ Dunder:Methods
    • ⚙ init:Methods
    • ⚙ reduce:Methods
    • ⚙ ungrouped:Methods
• 🔧 Properties
• 🔧 Signals

  Class: Scanner

  🔹 Public Methods

• 🔹 new Methods

  ⚠️ new_file Unavailable †
  ⚠️ new_stream Unavailable †
  ⚠️ new_string Unavailable †
  

• 🔹 parse Methods

  ⚠️ parse_boolean Unavailable †
  ⚠️ parse_color Unavailable †
  ⚠️ parse_data Unavailable †
  ⚠️ parse_double Unavailable †
  ⚠️ parse_identifier Unavailable †
  ⚠️ parse_int Unavailable †
  ⚠️ parse_int64 Unavailable †
  ⚠️ parse_matrix2 Unavailable †
  ⚠️ parse_string Unavailable †
  ⚠️ parse_string_no_validate Unavailable †
  ⚠️ parse_token Unavailable †
  

• 🔹 ungrouped Methods

  ⚠️ copy Unavailable †
  ⚠️ ref Unavailable †
  ⚠️ unref Unavailable †
  

  🔒 Private Methods

• 🔒 ungrouped Methods

  ⚠️ **clear_boxed** _Unavailable †
  

  ⚙ Dunder Methods

• ⚙ init Methods

  • __init__ (self, /, *args, **kwargs)
    
  • __init_subclass__ ()
    

• ⚙ reduce Methods

  • __reduce__ (self, /)
    
  • __reduce_ex__ (self, protocol, /)
    

• ⚙ ungrouped Methods

  • __class__ (name, bases, dict_)
    
  • __delattr__ (self, name, /)
    
  • __dir__ (self, /)
    
  • __eq__ (self, value, /)
    
  • __format__ (self, format_spec, /)
    
  • __ge__ (self, value, /)
    
  • __getattribute__ (self, name, /)
    
  • __getstate__ (self, /)
    
  • __gt__ (self, value, /)
    
  • __hash__ (self, /)
    
  • __le__ (self, value, /)
    
  • __lt__ (self, value, /)
    
  • __ne__ (self, value, /)
    
  • __new__ (*args, **kwargs)
    
  • __repr__ (self, /)
    
  • __setattr__ (self, name, value, /)
    
  • __sizeof__ (self, /)
    
  • __str__ (self, /)
    
  • __subclasshook__ (object, /)
    
  • __weakref__ (*args, **kwargs)
    

    🏷️ Properties

    No properties found
    

    📣 Signals

    No signal metadata found (not exposed by GI)
    - None found

† Methods marked as “Unavailable” exist at the C/GObject layer but are not callable via GIMP Python introspection.
These may become accessible in future releases or via plugin-level extensions.