Hi all
I usually send lxml queries to the lxml mailing list, but it appears to
be not working, so I thought I would try here.
This is a minor issue, and I have found an ugly workaround, but I
thought I would mention it.
In Python I can iterate through a list, and on a certain condition
append a new item to the list, which is then included in the iteration.
>>> x = ['a', 'b', 'c']
>>> for y in x:
... print(y)
... if y == 'b':
... x.append('d')
...
a
b
c
d
>>> x
['a', 'b', 'c', 'd']
>>>
The same thing works in lxml -
>>> lmx = '<x><y z="a"/><y z="b"/><y z="c"/></x>'
>>> xml = etree.fromstring(lmx)
>>> for y in xml:
... print(etree.tostring(y))
... if y.get('z') == 'b':
... xml.append(etree.Element('y', attrib={'z': 'd'}))
...
b'<y z="a"/>'
b'<y z="b"/>'
b'<y z="c"/>'
b'<y z="d"/>'
>>> etree.tostring(xml)
b'<x><y z="a"/><y z="b"/><y z="c"/><y z="d"/></x>'
However, if it happens that the condition is met on the last item in the
list, Python still works, but lxml does not include the appended item in
the iteration. In the following, the only change is checking for 'c'
instead of 'b'.
>>> x = ['a', 'b', 'c']
>>> for y in x:
... print(y)
... if y == 'c':
... x.append('d')
...
a
b
c
d
>>> x
['a', 'b', 'c', 'd']
>>>
>>> lmx = '<x><y z="a"/><y z="b"/><y z="c"/></x>'
>>> xml = etree.fromstring(lmx)
>>> for y in xml:
... print(etree.tostring(y))
... if y.get('z') == 'c':
... xml.append(etree.Element('y', attrib={'z': 'd'}))
...
b'<y z="a"/>'
b'<y z="b"/>'
b'<y z="c"/>'
>>> etree.tostring(xml)
b'<x><y z="a"/><y z="b"/><y z="c"/><y z="d"/></x>'
As you can see, the last element is correctly appended, but is not
included in the iteration.
Is there any chance that this can be looked at, or is it just the way it
works?
BTW, I see that ElementTree in the standard library does not have this
problem.
Thanks
Frank Millman
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