[New-bugs-announce] [issue24079] xml.etree.ElementTree.Element.text does not conform to the documentation

[Jérôme Laurens]

New submission from Jérôme Laurens:

The documentation for xml.etree.ElementTree.Element.text reads "If the element is created from an XML file the attribute will contain any text found between the element tags."

import xml.etree.ElementTree as ET
root3 = ET.fromstring('<a><b/>TEXT</a>')
print(root3.text)

CURRENT OUTPUT

None

"TEXT" is between the elements tags but does not appear in the output

BTW : this is well formed xml and has nothing to do with tail.

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components: XML
messages: 242256
nosy: jlaurens
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: xml.etree.ElementTree.Element.text does not conform to the documentation
type: behavior
versions: Python 3.4

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