Hi,
tomi.belan--- via lxml - The Python XML Toolkit schrieb am 15.03.25 um 01:15:
I noticed that the text_content() method of lxml.html elements returns a
_ElementUnicodeResult, i.e. a 'smart' string.
However, its getparent(), attrname are None, and is_tail, is_text, is_attribute are
False. This is the case even if the element contains a single text node. The XPath
"string()" used in text_content()'s implementation never returns an existing
text node, but always a new string.
Wouldn't it make more sense for text_content() to return a normal str?
E.g. by adding smart_strings=False to _collect_string_content.
Yes, that seems useless and unintended. I'll change it for lxml 6.0.
Thanks for reporting this.
Stefan
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