[New-bugs-announce] [issue30507] Elements reports it is a list on Element.remove

[Jim Fasarakis-Hilliard]

New submission from Jim Fasarakis-Hilliard:

Another splinter issue from issue13349. Currently, Element reports it's a list when remove is called on it:

    from xml.etree.ElementTree import Element
    Element('').remove(Element('')) 

    ValueError: list.remove(x): x not in list

>From what I understand, this was done in order for it to conform with the error reporting performed from the pure python implementation of Element. (side note: These also differ regarding the type of value supplied to .remove, the C implementation only wants instances of Element)

The message, imo, is confusing and should be changed to Element.remove(x): x not in Element.

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components: Library (Lib)
messages: 294697
nosy: Jim Fasarakis-Hilliard
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: Elements reports it is a list on Element.remove
type: behavior
versions: Python 3.7

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