Mailman 3 November 2007 - lxml - The Python XML Toolkit

[lxml-dev] lxml has its page on launchpad
by Stefan Behnel April 11, 2023

April 11, 2023

Hi all, I added the lxml project to launchpad, the Ubuntu Bug-Tracker. It also has a FAQ engine and a couple of other goodies. https://launchpad.net/lxml It's easy to sign up for launchpad, BTW, no 90%-footnotes-contract. Have fun, Stefan

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[lxml-dev] Reparenting a node
by Lawrence Oluyede Jan. 30, 2023

Jan. 30, 2023

I have a doc A and a doc B, I'd like to put a node extracted from A in the document B but I always get a ValueError: ValueError: Element is not a child of this node. I didn't find any "setparent" in the API. How can I do this? -- Lawrence, oluyede.org - neropercaso.it "It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on not understanding it" - Upton Sinclair

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[lxml-dev] Building LXML Trunk
by Sidnei da Silva Aug. 31, 2022

Aug. 31, 2022

Hi, I've tried to build lxml from trunk today, on Win32. Got the following error: src\lxml\etree.c(880) : error C2059: syntax error : ')' src\lxml\etree.c(881) : error C2059: syntax error : ')' src\lxml\etree.c(882) : error C2059: syntax error : ')' src\lxml\etree.c(883) : error C2059: syntax error : ')' Any clue? Smells like a Pyrex issue? -- Sidnei da Silva Enfold Systems http://enfoldsystems.com Fax +1 832 201 8856 Office +1 713 942 2377 Ext 214

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[lxml-dev] Pickling objectified trees
by Christian Zagrodnick June 9, 2008

June 9, 2008

Hi, the other day I had to pickle objectified trees. I just thought to share my findings. Pickling is about serialization. IMHO the natural serialization of an objectified tree is its XML representation. So the following basically does that: -------------------------- import copy_reg import lxml.etree import lxml.objectify def treeFactory(state): """Un-Pickle factory.""" return lxml.objectify.fromstring(state) copy_reg.constructor(treeFactory) def reduceObjectifiedElement(object): """Reduce function for lxml.objectify trees. See http://docs.python.org/lib/pickle-protocol.html for details. """ return (treeFactory, (lxml.etree.tostring(object), )) copy_reg.pickle(lxml.objectify.ObjectifiedElement, reduceObjectifiedElement, treeFactory) ----------------------------------------- You might consider just registering the reduce function in lxml itself. Shouldn't hurt, should it. -- Christian Zagrodnick gocept gmbh & co. kg · forsterstrasse 29 · 06112 halle/saale www.gocept.com · fon. +49 345 12298894 · fax. +49 345 12298891

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[lxml-dev] lxml namespaces
by Maxim Sloyko Feb. 20, 2008

Feb. 20, 2008

Hi All! I have a little problem with XML namespaces. In my application I have two XML processors, that process the same document, one after the other. The first one looks for nodes in 'ns1' namespace, and substitutes them, according to some algorithm. After this processor is finished, it is guaranteed that there are no more 'ns1' nodes left in the tree. 'ns1' namespace dclaration is still there, in the root node (well, I put it there manually). Now, when this namespace is no longer needed, I want to get rid of it, because it confuses some other processors (namely, my browser) So, the question is, how do I do that? del tree.getroot().nsmap['ns1'] does not seem to do the trick :( Thanks in advance and Happy Holidays! -- Maxim Sloyko

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[lxml-dev] easy_install issues
by pf＠pfhawkins.com Dec. 4, 2007

Dec. 4, 2007

I'm having trouble installing any version of lxml higher than 1.3.3. The error says that easy_install can't find a proper version of dateutil, even though I have a high enough version of "python-dateutil" installed on this system. I assume that the issue has to do with "dateutil" vs. "python-dateutil", but I'm not sure. FWIW, I'm running ubuntu gutsy. Thanks in advance! P. F. Hawkins -- Figuring things out, one word at a time.

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[lxml-dev] Error with thread
by Frédéric Mantegazza Dec. 3, 2007

Dec. 3, 2007

Hello, I have a problem with a XSLT filter: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/home/pymad/PyMAD/server/macros/freeScan.py", line 247, in doAction DataManager().newScanPoint(numPoint, 'NSF') File "/home/pymad/PyMAD/server/managers/dataManager.py", line 253, in newScanPoint self.__scan.setPoint(numPoint, numPal) File "/home/pymad/PyMAD/server/data/scanData.py", line 221, in setPoint self.__serialize() File "/home/pymad/PyMAD/server/data/scanData.py", line 196, in __serialize filter_.dumpScan(self.__tree, self.__scanBaseName) File "/home/pymad/PyMAD/server/data/dataFilters.py", line 122, in dumpScan result = self.__xslFilter.apply(tree, fileName="'%s'" % baseName) File "xslt.pxi", line 450, in etree.XSLT.apply File "xslt.pxi", line 356, in etree.XSLT.__call__ RuntimeError: stylesheet is not usable in this thread This error ocurs on a machine, and not on another, which has the same install (debian etch, lxml 1.1.1). Any idea ? -- Frédéric

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[lxml-dev] Error (?) with UTF-8 document and Python unicode repr.
by Artur Siekielski Nov. 29, 2007

Nov. 29, 2007

Hi. First of all, thanks for a great XML/HTML library! API is really good thought. I'm coming here with a problem with HTML doc encoded with UTF-8: $ cat test_doc.html <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <head> <title>A*?Ä?ka</title> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /> </head> <body> <h1>GdaA*?sk</h1> </body> </html> ("title" and "h1" contents are utf-8 strings, decodable to latin2). From raw Python everything seems to be as expected: >>> sdata = open('test_doc.html').read() >>> sdata[219:240] '<title>\xc5\x81\xc4\x85ka</title>' >>> udata = unicode(sdata, 'utf-8') >>> udata[219:240] u'<title>\u0141\u0105ka</title>\n ' >>> print udata[219:240].encode('latin2') <title>Łąka</title> The last statement prints as expected on my console with latin2 charset. But when using lxml something strange happens: >>> from lxml import etree >>> t = etree.parse(open('test_doc.html'), etree.HTMLParser()) Now getting title element text: >>> t.getroot()[0][0].text u'\xc5\x81\xc4\x85ka' This is strange, because this is a unicode string (as indicated by the first "u") but it's representation printed to console is the same as raw bytes from 'sdata' var. I would expect that it should be equal to contents to 'udata' var. As a consequence converting to latin2 doesn't work: >>> t.getroot()[0][0].text.encode('latin2') Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> File "/usr/share/python2.5/encodings/iso8859_2.py", line 12, in encode return codecs.charmap_encode(input,errors,encoding_table) UnicodeEncodeError: 'charmap' codec can't encode character u'\xc5' in position 0: character maps to <undefined> If it's not an error, please tell me. For now I cannot even find any reasonable workaround. I'm using the latest lxml 1.3.6. Thanks for looking at this problem, Regards, Artur

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[lxml-dev] lxml 2.0alpha5 fails to build on OS X 10.3.9
by js Nov. 25, 2007

Nov. 25, 2007

Hi, I was trying to install the latest lxml on my box, but it failed with these errors. (I can build lxml-2.0alpha4 on my box without any problems) $ python2.5 setup.py build Building lxml version 2.0.alpha5. NOTE: Trying to build without Cython, pre-generated 'src/lxml/etree.c' needs to be available. running build running build_py creating build creating build/lib.macosx-10.3-ppc-2.5 creating build/lib.macosx-10.3-ppc-2.5/lxml copying src/lxml/__init__.py -> build/lib.macosx-10.3-ppc-2.5/lxml copying src/lxml/_elementpath.py -> build/lib.macosx-10.3-ppc-2.5/lxml copying src/lxml/builder.py -> build/lib.macosx-10.3-ppc-2.5/lxml copying src/lxml/cssselect.py -> build/lib.macosx-10.3-ppc-2.5/lxml copying src/lxml/doctestcompare.py -> build/lib.macosx-10.3-ppc-2.5/lxml copying src/lxml/ElementInclude.py -> build/lib.macosx-10.3-ppc-2.5/lxml copying src/lxml/htmlbuilder.py -> build/lib.macosx-10.3-ppc-2.5/lxml copying src/lxml/sax.py -> build/lib.macosx-10.3-ppc-2.5/lxml copying src/lxml/usedoctest.py -> build/lib.macosx-10.3-ppc-2.5/lxml creating build/lib.macosx-10.3-ppc-2.5/lxml/html copying src/lxml/html/__init__.py -> build/lib.macosx-10.3-ppc-2.5/lxml/html copying src/lxml/html/_diffcommand.py -> build/lib.macosx-10.3-ppc-2.5/lxml/html copying src/lxml/html/builder.py -> build/lib.macosx-10.3-ppc-2.5/lxml/html copying src/lxml/html/clean.py -> build/lib.macosx-10.3-ppc-2.5/lxml/html copying src/lxml/html/defs.py -> build/lib.macosx-10.3-ppc-2.5/lxml/html copying src/lxml/html/diff.py -> build/lib.macosx-10.3-ppc-2.5/lxml/html copying src/lxml/html/ElementSoup.py -> build/lib.macosx-10.3-ppc-2.5/lxml/html copying src/lxml/html/formfill.py -> build/lib.macosx-10.3-ppc-2.5/lxml/html copying src/lxml/html/setmixin.py -> build/lib.macosx-10.3-ppc-2.5/lxml/html copying src/lxml/html/usedoctest.py -> build/lib.macosx-10.3-ppc-2.5/lxml/html running build_ext building 'lxml.etree' extension creating build/temp.macosx-10.3-ppc-2.5 creating build/temp.macosx-10.3-ppc-2.5/src creating build/temp.macosx-10.3-ppc-2.5/src/lxml gcc -fno-strict-aliasing -Wno-long-double -no-cpp-precomp -mno-fused-madd -DNDEBUG -O2 -g -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -I/opt/local/include -I/opt/local/include/libxml2 -I/opt/local/include/python2.5 -c src/lxml/lxml.etree.c -o build/temp.macosx-10.3-ppc-2.5/src/lxml/lxml.etree.o -w gcc -L/opt/local/lib -lcc_dynamic -bundle -undefined dynamic_lookup build/temp.macosx-10.3-ppc-2.5/src/lxml/lxml.etree.o -L/opt/local/lib -lxslt -lexslt -lxml2 -lz -lm -o build/lib.macosx-10.3-ppc-2.5/lxml/etree.so building 'lxml.objectify' extension gcc -fno-strict-aliasing -Wno-long-double -no-cpp-precomp -mno-fused-madd -DNDEBUG -O2 -g -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -I/opt/local/include -I/opt/local/include/libxml2 -I/opt/local/include/python2.5 -c src/lxml/lxml.objectify.c -o build/temp.macosx-10.3-ppc-2.5/src/lxml/lxml.objectify.o -w src/lxml/lxml.objectify.c:49:28: lxml.etree_api.h: No such file or directory src/lxml/lxml.objectify.c:175: error: field `__pyx_base' has incomplete type src/lxml/lxml.objectify.c:348: error: field `__pyx_base' has incomplete type src/lxml/lxml.objectify.c: In function `__pyx_pf_4lxml_9objectify_18ObjectifiedElement_8__dict_____get__': src/lxml/lxml.objectify.c:1472: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type src/lxml/lxml.objectify.c:1472: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type src/lxml/lxml.objectify.c:1487: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type src/lxml/lxml.objectify.c:1538: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type src/lxml/lxml.objectify.c: In function `__pyx_pf_4lxml_9objectify_18ObjectifiedElement___setattr__': src/lxml/lxml.objectify.c:2076: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type src/lxml/lxml.objectify.c: In function `__pyx_pf_4lxml_9objectify_18ObjectifiedElement___setitem__': src/lxml/lxml.objectify.c:3263: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type src/lxml/lxml.objectify.c:3264: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type src/lxml/lxml.objectify.c: In function `__pyx_f_4lxml_9objectify__findFollowingSibling': src/lxml/lxml.objectify.c:4412: error: `nextElement' undeclared (first use in this function) src/lxml/lxml.objectify.c:4412: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once src/lxml/lxml.objectify.c:4412: error: for each function it appears in.) src/lxml/lxml.objectify.c:4433: error: `previousElement' undeclared (first use in this function) src/lxml/lxml.objectify.c: At top level: src/lxml/lxml.objectify.c:4545: error: conflicting types for `__pyx_f_4lxml_9objectify__lookupChild' src/lxml/lxml.objectify.c:669: error: previous declaration of `__pyx_f_4lxml_9objectify__lookupChild' src/lxml/lxml.objectify.c: In function `__pyx_f_4lxml_9objectify__lookupChild': src/lxml/lxml.objectify.c:4556: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type src/lxml/lxml.objectify.c:4644: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type src/lxml/lxml.objectify.c:4719: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type src/lxml/lxml.objectify.c:4734: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type src/lxml/lxml.objectify.c: At top level: src/lxml/lxml.objectify.c:4751: error: conflicting types for `__pyx_f_4lxml_9objectify__lookupChildOrRaise' src/lxml/lxml.objectify.c:670: error: previous declaration of `__pyx_f_4lxml_9objectify__lookupChildOrRaise' src/lxml/lxml.objectify.c: In function `__pyx_f_4lxml_9objectify__lookupChildOrRaise': src/lxml/lxml.objectify.c:4757: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type src/lxml/lxml.objectify.c:4820: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type src/lxml/lxml.objectify.c: At top level: src/lxml/lxml.objectify.c:4833: error: conflicting types for `__pyx_f_4lxml_9objectify__buildChildTag' src/lxml/lxml.objectify.c:671: error: previous declaration of `__pyx_f_4lxml_9objectify__buildChildTag' src/lxml/lxml.objectify.c: In function `__pyx_f_4lxml_9objectify__buildChildTag': src/lxml/lxml.objectify.c:4842: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type src/lxml/lxml.objectify.c:4940: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type src/lxml/lxml.objectify.c:4940: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type src/lxml/lxml.objectify.c:4978: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type src/lxml/lxml.objectify.c: At top level: src/lxml/lxml.objectify.c:4994: error: conflicting types for `__pyx_f_4lxml_9objectify__replaceElement' src/lxml/lxml.objectify.c:672: error: previous declaration of `__pyx_f_4lxml_9objectify__replaceElement' src/lxml/lxml.objectify.c: In function `__pyx_f_4lxml_9objectify__replaceElement': src/lxml/lxml.objectify.c:5001: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type src/lxml/lxml.objectify.c:5022: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type src/lxml/lxml.objectify.c:5022: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type src/lxml/lxml.objectify.c:5170: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type src/lxml/lxml.objectify.c:5171: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type src/lxml/lxml.objectify.c: At top level: src/lxml/lxml.objectify.c:5184: error: conflicting types for `__pyx_f_4lxml_9objectify__appendValue' src/lxml/lxml.objectify.c:673: error: previous declaration of `__pyx_f_4lxml_9objectify__appendValue' src/lxml/lxml.objectify.c: In function `__pyx_f_4lxml_9objectify__appendValue': src/lxml/lxml.objectify.c:5192: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type src/lxml/lxml.objectify.c:5215: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type src/lxml/lxml.objectify.c:5215: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type src/lxml/lxml.objectify.c:5337: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type src/lxml/lxml.objectify.c:5339: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type src/lxml/lxml.objectify.c: At top level: src/lxml/lxml.objectify.c:5361: error: conflicting types for `__pyx_f_4lxml_9objectify__setElementValue' src/lxml/lxml.objectify.c:674: error: previous declaration of `__pyx_f_4lxml_9objectify__setElementValue' src/lxml/lxml.objectify.c: In function `__pyx_f_4lxml_9objectify__setElementValue': src/lxml/lxml.objectify.c:5371: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type src/lxml/lxml.objectify.c:5426: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type src/lxml/lxml.objectify.c:5567: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type src/lxml/lxml.objectify.c:5580: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type src/lxml/lxml.objectify.c:5591: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type src/lxml/lxml.objectify.c: In function `__pyx_f_4lxml_9objectify__strValueOf': src/lxml/lxml.objectify.c:8883: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type src/lxml/lxml.objectify.c: In function `__pyx_pf_4lxml_9objectify_28_ObjectifyElementMakerCaller___call__': src/lxml/lxml.objectify.c:12973: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type src/lxml/lxml.objectify.c:12974: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type src/lxml/lxml.objectify.c: At top level: src/lxml/lxml.objectify.c:12991: error: conflicting types for `__pyx_f_4lxml_9objectify__add_text' src/lxml/lxml.objectify.c:682: error: previous declaration of `__pyx_f_4lxml_9objectify__add_text' src/lxml/lxml.objectify.c: In function `__pyx_f_4lxml_9objectify__add_text': src/lxml/lxml.objectify.c:12998: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type src/lxml/lxml.objectify.c:13009: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type src/lxml/lxml.objectify.c:13077: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type src/lxml/lxml.objectify.c:13114: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type src/lxml/lxml.objectify.c:13126: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type src/lxml/lxml.objectify.c: At top level: src/lxml/lxml.objectify.c:13238: error: conflicting types for `__pyx_f_4lxml_9objectify__dump' src/lxml/lxml.objectify.c:683: error: previous declaration of `__pyx_f_4lxml_9objectify__dump' src/lxml/lxml.objectify.c: In function `__pyx_f_4lxml_9objectify__dump': src/lxml/lxml.objectify.c:13253: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type src/lxml/lxml.objectify.c:13308: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type src/lxml/lxml.objectify.c:13772: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type src/lxml/lxml.objectify.c: At top level: src/lxml/lxml.objectify.c:14081: error: conflicting types for `__pyx_f_4lxml_9objectify__lookupElementClass' src/lxml/lxml.objectify.c:685: error: previous declaration of `__pyx_f_4lxml_9objectify__lookupElementClass' src/lxml/lxml.objectify.c: In function `__pyx_f_4lxml_9objectify__lookupElementClass': src/lxml/lxml.objectify.c:14093: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type src/lxml/lxml.objectify.c:14523: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type src/lxml/lxml.objectify.c: In function `__pyx_pf_4lxml_9objectify_pyannotate': src/lxml/lxml.objectify.c:14748: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type src/lxml/lxml.objectify.c: In function `__pyx_pf_4lxml_9objectify_xsiannotate': src/lxml/lxml.objectify.c:14839: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type src/lxml/lxml.objectify.c: In function `__pyx_pf_4lxml_9objectify_annotate': src/lxml/lxml.objectify.c:14959: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type src/lxml/lxml.objectify.c: At top level: src/lxml/lxml.objectify.c:15002: error: conflicting types for `__pyx_f_4lxml_9objectify__annotate' src/lxml/lxml.objectify.c:687: error: previous declaration of `__pyx_f_4lxml_9objectify__annotate' src/lxml/lxml.objectify.c: In function `__pyx_f_4lxml_9objectify__annotate': src/lxml/lxml.objectify.c:15023: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type src/lxml/lxml.objectify.c:15079: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type src/lxml/lxml.objectify.c:15081: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type src/lxml/lxml.objectify.c:15237: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type src/lxml/lxml.objectify.c:16441: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type src/lxml/lxml.objectify.c:16452: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type src/lxml/lxml.objectify.c: In function `__pyx_pf_4lxml_9objectify_deannotate': src/lxml/lxml.objectify.c:16513: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type src/lxml/lxml.objectify.c:16695: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type src/lxml/lxml.objectify.c: In function `__pyx_pf_4lxml_9objectify_10ObjectPath___call__': src/lxml/lxml.objectify.c:18931: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type src/lxml/lxml.objectify.c:19029: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type src/lxml/lxml.objectify.c: In function `__pyx_pf_4lxml_9objectify_10ObjectPath_setattr': src/lxml/lxml.objectify.c:19153: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type src/lxml/lxml.objectify.c:19175: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type src/lxml/lxml.objectify.c: In function `__pyx_pf_4lxml_9objectify_10ObjectPath_addattr': src/lxml/lxml.objectify.c:19198: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type src/lxml/lxml.objectify.c:19220: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type src/lxml/lxml.objectify.c: In function `__pyx_f_4lxml_9objectify__findObjectPath': src/lxml/lxml.objectify.c:20518: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type src/lxml/lxml.objectify.c:20529: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type src/lxml/lxml.objectify.c:20775: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type src/lxml/lxml.objectify.c:20842: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type src/lxml/lxml.objectify.c: In function `__pyx_f_4lxml_9objectify__createObjectPath': src/lxml/lxml.objectify.c:20877: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type src/lxml/lxml.objectify.c:20912: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type src/lxml/lxml.objectify.c:21185: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type src/lxml/lxml.objectify.c:21228: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type src/lxml/lxml.objectify.c:21260: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type src/lxml/lxml.objectify.c:21282: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type src/lxml/lxml.objectify.c:21316: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type src/lxml/lxml.objectify.c:21350: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type src/lxml/lxml.objectify.c:21352: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type src/lxml/lxml.objectify.c: In function `initobjectify': src/lxml/lxml.objectify.c:24784: error: invalid application of `sizeof' to an incomplete type src/lxml/lxml.objectify.c:24853: error: invalid application of `sizeof' to an incomplete type src/lxml/lxml.objectify.c:24865: error: invalid application of `sizeof' to an incomplete type src/lxml/lxml.objectify.c:24866: error: invalid application of `sizeof' to an incomplete type src/lxml/lxml.objectify.c:24867: error: invalid application of `sizeof' to an incomplete type src/lxml/lxml.objectify.c:24868: error: invalid application of `sizeof' to an incomplete type src/lxml/lxml.objectify.c:24869: error: invalid application of `sizeof' to an incomplete type src/lxml/lxml.objectify.c:24870: error: invalid application of `sizeof' to an incomplete type error: command 'gcc' failed with exit status 1 any clues?

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[lxml-dev] lxml 2.0alpha5 released
by Stefan Behnel Nov. 24, 2007

Nov. 24, 2007

Hi all, lxml 2.0alpha5 made it to PyPI. This is (hopefully) the last alpha in the pre-2.0 series, so please report any remaining API quirks, weirdnesses and bugs now to make sure they get fixed before 2.0 gets its API freeze during the beta cycle. If all works out well, there should not be more than one beta release before the final version. This release features a major overhaul of the target parser, including an internal SAX parser framework and an ET compatible TreeBuilder implementation. The complete Changelog follows below. Note that the API now enforces keyword-only arguments in a couple of places. This can require some syntactic changes in existing code. Have fun, Stefan 2.0alpha5 (2007-11-24) Features added * Rich comparison of element.attrib proxies. * ElementTree compatible TreeBuilder class. * Use default prefixes for some common XML namespaces. * lxml.html.clean.Cleaner now allows for a host_whitelist, and two overridable methods: allow_embedded_url(el, url) and the more general allow_element(el). * Extended slicing of Elements as in element[1:-1:2], both in etree and in objectify * Resolvers can now provide a base_url keyword argument when resolving a document as string data. * When using lxml.doctestcompare you can give the doctest option NOPARSE_MARKUP (like # doctest: +NOPARSE_MARKUP) to suppress the special checking for one test. Bugs fixed * Target parser failed to report comments. * In the lxml.html iter_links() method, links in <object> tags weren't recognized. (Note: plugin-specific link parameters still aren't recognized.) Also, the <embed> tag, though not standard, is now included in lxml.html.defs.special_inline_tags. * Using custom resolvers on XSLT stylesheets parsed from a string could request ill-formed URLs. * With lxml.doctestcompare if you do <tag xmlns="..."> in your output, it will then be namespace-neutral (before the ellipsis was treated as a real namespace). Other changes * The module source files were renamed to "lxml.*.pyx", such as "lxml.etree.pyx". This was changed for consistency with the way Pyrex commonly handles package imports. The main effect is that classes now know about their fully qualified class name, including the package name of their module. * Keyword-only arguments in some API functions, especially in the parsers and serialisers.

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