[issue38742] ElementTree won't parse comments before root element

2019-11-15 Thread Stefan Behnel
Stefan Behnel added the comment: Duplicate of issue 9521 (and issue 24287). -- resolution: -> duplicate stage: -> resolved status: open -> closed superseder: -> xml.etree.ElementTree skips processing instructions when parsing ___ Python tracker

[issue38742] ElementTree won't parse comments before root element

2019-11-08 Thread yucheng chen
New submission from yucheng chen : issue8277 It couldn't work for those comments before the root element. It will raise an error that "xml.etree.ElementTree.ParseError: multiple elements on top level". Example: test.xml test.py --- from xml.etree import ElementTre