Raymond Hettinger added the comment: > this is well formed xml and has nothing to do with tail.
In fact, it does have something to do with tail. The 'TEXT' is a captured as the tail of element b: >>> root3 = ET.fromstring('<a><b/>TEXT</a>') >>> root3[0].tail 'TEXT' ---------- nosy: +eli.bendersky, rhettinger, scoder _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue24079> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com