[New-bugs-announce] [issue37399] XML text behaviour change if there are comments

[Dima Tisnek]

New submission from Dima Tisnek <dimaqq at gmail.com>:

Example:

# mre.py
from xml.etree import ElementTree

XML = "<a>foo<!-- comment -->bar</a>"

a = ElementTree.fromstring(XML)
print(list(a.itertext()))

# Testing 3.7.3 vs. 3.8.0b1; macOS

… ~> python3.7 mre.py
['foobar']
… ~> python3.8 mre.py
['bar']

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components: Library (Lib)
messages: 346493
nosy: Dima.Tisnek
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: XML text behaviour change if there are comments
versions: Python 3.8

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