From b09b16741930e614d95cc51172f0106e3c8ecc00 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Eli Bendersky Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2013 05:22:05 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] Issue #16922: fixed findtext() to return empty Unicode string instead of empty bytes object when there's no text. Patch by Serhiy Storchaka. --- Lib/test/test_xml_etree.py | 2 ++ Modules/_elementtree.c | 2 +- 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/Lib/test/test_xml_etree.py b/Lib/test/test_xml_etree.py index 3092f3bc11ed50..f61292f546849b 100644 --- a/Lib/test/test_xml_etree.py +++ b/Lib/test/test_xml_etree.py @@ -352,6 +352,8 @@ def find(): 'subtext' >>> ET.ElementTree(elem).findtext("section/tag") 'subtext' + >>> ET.XML('').findtext('empty') + '' >>> summarize_list(elem.findall(".")) ['body'] >>> summarize_list(elem.findall("tag")) diff --git a/Modules/_elementtree.c b/Modules/_elementtree.c index c36af5d12616f8..17d5d09962e32b 100644 --- a/Modules/_elementtree.c +++ b/Modules/_elementtree.c @@ -840,7 +840,7 @@ element_findtext(ElementObject* self, PyObject* args) PyObject* text = element_get_text(item); if (text == Py_None) - return PyBytes_FromString(""); + return PyUnicode_FromString(""); Py_XINCREF(text); return text; }