Martin Panter added the comment: Another problem with tostring() is that it seems you have to call it with encoding="unicode". Perhaps it would be better to suggest code like "".join(element.itertext())?
I would also improve on Jérôme’s version by making the None case more explicit. And perhaps both attributes can be defined together, rather than giving a half-hearted definition linking between them: .. attribute:: text .. attribute:: tail The *text* attribute holds any text between the element's begin tag and the next tag. The *tail* attribute holds any text between the element's end tag and the next tag. These attributes are set to ``None`` if there is no text. For example, in the XML data ``<a><b>1<c>2<d/>3</c></b>4</a>``, the *a* element has ``None`` for both *text* and *tail* attributes, the *b* element has *text* ``"1"`` and *tail* ``"4"``, the *c* element has *text* ``"2"`` and *tail* ``None``, the *d* element has *text* ``None`` and *tail* ``"3"``. To collect the inner text of an element, use :meth:`itertext`, for example ``"".join(element.itertext())``. Applications may store arbitrary objects in these attributes. ---------- nosy: +vadmium _______________________________________ 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
