Re: [lxml-dev] Python interpreter segfault setting element tail

3 Nov 2005


      Martijn Faassen wrote:
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Kieran Holland wrote:
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Thanks for lxml - very nice.
Unfortunately the following fragment causes my python interpreter to
crash and burn:
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from lxml import etree
root = etree.fromstring('<html><p></p>x</html>')
for elem in root:
    elem.tail = ''
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Thanks for reporting this! I have identified a bug in the iteration 
implementation that I need to think about a bit more. Basically the 
iterator now retains the next node iteration too long, and changing the 
text tree structure can break this assumption, causing the system to 
iterate off into now non-existent space.
I've finally checked in a fix for this! Thanks for waiting!

Regards,

Martijn