[issue8277] ElementTree won't parse comments

[Patrick W.]

New submission from Patrick W. <poke at BornToLaugh.de>:

When using xml.etree.ElementTree to parse external XML files, all XML comments within that file are being stripped out. I guess that happens because there is no comment handler in the expat parser.

Example:

test.xml
--------
<example>
  <nodeA />
  <!-- some comment -->
  <nodeB />
</example>

test.py
-------
from xml.etree import ElementTree
with open( 'test.xml', 'r' ) as f:
    xml = ElementTree.parse( f )
ElementTree.dump( xml )

Result
------
<example>
  <nodeA />

  <nodeB />
</example>

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components: XML
messages: 102051
nosy: poke
severity: normal
status: open
title: ElementTree won't parse comments
type: behavior
versions: Python 3.1

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