ElementTree: How to return only unicode?

[Torsten Bronger]

Hallöchen!

Stefan Behnel writes:

> Torsten Bronger wrote:
>
>> Stefan Behnel writes:
>> 
>>> Torsten Bronger wrote:
>>>
>>>> [...]
>>>>
>>>> My problem is that if there is only ASCII, these methods return
>>>> ordinary strings instead of unicode.  So sometimes I get str,
>>>> sometimes I get unicode.  Can one change this globally so that
>>>> they only return unicode?
>
> [...]
>
> I just looked at the code. It seems that you can use your own
> XMLTreeBuilder subclass and overwrite the "._fixtext()" method
> like this:
>
>     def _fixtext(self, text):
>         return text

Great.  Thus, the following monkeypatch seems to do the trick:

    from xml.etree import ElementTree
    # FixMe: Must go away with Python 3
    ElementTree.XMLTreeBuilder._fixtext = lambda self, text: text

Thank you!

Tschö,
Torsten.

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