Stefan Behnel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > So it's not even an ElementTree thing. ET just doesn't know what > exactly was in the original XML byte stream. A very simple way to > make sure you always get a string back is > >>> text = element.text or ""
Thanks, I ended up doing something like that. What I wondered about the standard was whether it specified that parrot had no text node, as opposed to having an empty text node. I guess it doesn't matter, it just caught me by surprise. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
