[XML-SIG] Re: Problems with elementtree and versions of python.

[Tony McDonald]

On Thursday, July 31, 2003, at 00:01AM, Fredrik Lundh wrote:

> Tony McDonald wrote:
>
>> I'm having real problems with it though - and I think it's a python 
>> version
>> thing.
>>
>> Eg using the code from
>> http://online.effbot.org/2003_07_01_archive.htm#element-tricks-2
>
> it took me a while to figure it out, but it's a bug in the 
> ElementWrapper
> sample, not in the ElementTree library.
>
> changing the ElementWrapper __getattr__ code from
>
>     def __getattr__(self, tag):
>         return self._element.findtext(self._ns + tag)
>
> to
>
>     def __getattr__(self, tag):
>         if tag.startswith("__"):
>             raise AttributeError(tag)
>         return self._element.findtext(self._ns + tag)
>
> should help.
>
> </F>
>


That's great Fredrik, it does the job nicely (and elementree is a very 
nice piece of software by the way).

Thanks again
Tone.
-- 
Dr Tony McDonald, Assistant Director, FMSC, http://www.fmcc.org.uk/
The Medical School, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, 0191 245 4223
Project manager, FDTL-4 eportfolios project, 
http://www.eportfolios.ac.uk/

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