[lxml-dev] problem with lxml and copy.deepcopy

[Chris Abraham]

Stefan,
Thanks.  This works well (and seems to have solved other problems I was
having.)
Chris

Stefan Behnel wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Chris Abraham wrote:
>   
>> I'm having a problem with performing a copy.deepcopy on a list of
>> elements.  I'm finding the etree._Comment elements get turned into
>> None.
>>     
>
> Verified, thanks for reporting this. It's easy to reproduce like this:
>
>         a = Comment("ONE")
>         b = copy.deepcopy(a)
>
>
> The reason is that we create a new document internally and make the new
> element the root node. If it's a comment (or PI), however, libxml2 can't look
> it up right away with the normal call for the document root node, so we have
> to special case this (rare) use case.
>
> Fixed for 1.1 and trunk.
>
> Stefan
>
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