[issue24072] xml.etree.ElementTree.Element does not catch text

Ned Deily added the comment: While a bit confusing, I don't think this is a bug. Note the definition of the "tail" attribute of an element: "If the element is created from an XML file the attribute will contain any text found after the element’s end tag and before the next tag." Unlike in ro

[issue24072] xml.etree.ElementTree.Element does not catch text

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[issue24072] xml.etree.ElementTree.Element does not catch text

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[issue24072] xml.etree.ElementTree.Element does not catch text

Raymond Hettinger added the comment: What would you have it do in the general case, should it concatenate all the text in: >>> root4 = ET.fromstring('abcdefghi') >>> root4.text 'abc' If I'm interpreting the XML spec correctly ( http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/REC-xml-20060816/#sec-starttags section

[issue24072] xml.etree.ElementTree.Element does not catch text

New submission from Jérôme Laurens: text is not catcher in case 3 below INPUT import xml.etree.ElementTree as ET root1 = ET.fromstring('TEXT') print(root1.text) root2 = ET.fromstring('TEXT') print(root2.text) root3 = ET.fromstring('TEXT') print(root3.text) CURRENT OUTPUT TEXT TEXT None <-