While trying the minidom parser from the current CVS, I found that
repr apparently does not work for nodes:
Python 2.0b1 (#29, Jun 30 2000, 10:48:11) [GCC 2.95.2 19991024 (release)] on linux2
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>>> from xml.dom.minidom import parse
>>> d=parse("/usr/src/python/Doc/tools/sgmlconv/conversion.xml")
>>> d.childNodes
[Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
TypeError: __repr__ returned non-string (type unicode)
The problem here is that __repr__ is computed as
def __repr__( self ):
return "<DOM Element:"+self.tagName+" at "+`id( self )` +" >"
and that self.tagName is u'conversion', so the resulting string is a
unicode string.
I'm not sure whose fault that is: either __repr__ should accept
unicode strings, or minidom.Element.__repr__ should be changed to
return a plain string, e.g. by converting tagname to UTF-8. In any
case, I believe __repr__ should 'work' for these objects.
Regards,
Martin
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