[lxml-dev] find/findall not accepting qnames?

[John Krukoff]

I find it surprising that find & findall do not accept QName objects in
lxml, and instead require a manual cast to string, like so:

etree.XML( '<a><ns0:b
xmlns:ns0="http://test"/></a>' ).find( str( etree.QName( 'http://test',
'b' ) ) )

ElementTree appears to accept QNames transparently, in my limited
testing.

I haven't tested with earlier revisions, but after tracking down a
couple of bugs related to this, is this a change in behavior in recent
(1.1) lxml versions?

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John Krukoff <jkrukoff at ltgc.com>
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