Sorry for replying to myself ... the following seems to be a working
solution to my original problem.
On Jul 24, 2:54 pm, André <andre.robe...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I have a function to replace the content of an ElementTree Element by
> that of another one which works using Python 2 but not with Python 3.
> I get an assertion error. The function is as follows:
>
> def replace_element(elem, replacement):
> '''replace the content of an ElementTree Element by that of
> another
> one.
> '''
> elem.clear()
> elem.text = replacement.text
> elem.tail = replacement.tail
> elem.tag = replacement.tag
> elem.attrib = replacement.attrib
> elem[:] = replacement[:]
>
Use instead:
def replace_element(elem, replacement):
'''replace the content of an ElementTree Element by that of
another
one.
'''
elem.clear()
elem.text = replacement.text
elem.tail = replacement.tail
elem.tag = replacement.tag
elem.attrib = replacement.attrib
try:
elem[:] = replacement[:] # works with Python 2.x (fast) but
not 3.x
except AssertionError:
del elem[:]
for child in replacement:
elem.append(child)
André
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