Mailman 3 February 2023 - lxml - The Python XML Toolkit

[lxml-dev] lxml has its page on launchpad
by Stefan Behnel 11 Apr '23

11 Apr '23

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] Checking whether a node is a comment/element
by Geoffrey Sneddon 10 Apr '23

10 Apr '23

Hi, What's the best way to check whether a given node is a comment or an element? For the former, I'm currently using isinstance(node, etree._Comment), which is rather obviously sub-optimal. -- Geoffrey Sneddon <http://gsnedders.com/>

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When is a number not a number
by Alex Hippel 28 Feb '23

28 Feb '23

Hi, Does anyone think this needs to be posted to the bug tracker? lxml seems to identify superscripts as an integer but then throws an exception. Thanks Alex from lxml import objectify xml = """ <types> <mysuperscript>²²²²²²²²²²</mysuperscript> </types> """ doc = objectify.fromstring(xml) print(objectify.dump(doc)) Traceback (most recent call last): File “**********.py", line 11, in <module> print(objectify.dump(doc)) ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ File "src/lxml/objectify.pyx", line 1521, in lxml.objectify.dump File "src/lxml/objectify.pyx", line 1549, in lxml.objectify._dump File "src/lxml/objectify.pyx", line 1526, in lxml.objectify._dump File "src/lxml/objectify.pyx", line 646, in lxml.objectify.NumberElement.__repr__ File "src/lxml/objectify.pyx", line 946, in lxml.objectify._parseNumber ValueError: invalid literal for int() with base 10: '²²²²²²²²²²'

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[newbie] Preserving carriage returns when calling soup.body.text?
by codecomplete＠free.fr 10 Feb '23

10 Feb '23

Hello, I can't find how to tell lxml/BS to preserve carriage returns in an HTML snippet when calling soup.body.text: After removing </br>'s, it also removes the CRLF that follows. ========== builder = LXMLTreeBuilderForXML(preserve_whitespace_tags=["body"]) rows = cur.fetchall() for row in rows: #BAD soup = BeautifulSoup(row["introtext"], builder=builder,features='lxml') soup = BeautifulSoup(row["intro"],features='lxml') print(soup.body.text) break ========== Is there an option? Thank you.

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