Hi (and sorry for the stupidly long subject, but otherwise it doesn't actually cover the subject), I'm not sure whether this is a bug or not (if not, there probably ought to be some note in the docs), but, for example:

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from lxml import etree foo = etree.fromstring("<root><a><b/></a><a/></root>") for element in foo.iter(etree.Element): ... print element.tag ... if element.tag == "a": ... element.getparent().remove(element) ... root a b foo = etree.fromstring("<root><a/><a/></root>") for element in foo.iter(etree.Element): ... print element.tag ... if element.tag == "a": ... element.getparent().remove(element) ... root a a

Only in the latter case does the final a element actually appear in the iteration, whereas in the former case it just vanishes. What changes the behaviour is the fact that in former case the first a element has a child: an empty b element. -- Geoffrey Sneddon <http://gsnedders.com/>