[lxml-dev] Is it bug?

[Stefan Behnel]

Hi,

Stefan Behnel wrote:
> Alexander Kozlovsky wrote:
>> I discover some counterintuitive behavior of 'tail' attribute:
>>
>>     >>> from lxml import etree
>>     >>> a = etree.XML('<a><b>text</b>tail</a>')
>>     >>> b = a[0]
>>     >>> print b.tail
>>     tail
>>     >>> a[:] = []
>>     >>> print b.tail
>>     None  #  EXPECTED: tail
>>
>> I think, it is bug or at least worth note in documentation
> 
> Definitely looks like a bug to me. The tail should stay with the unlinked
> element. Thanks for the report, I'll look into this.

Here's a patch, applied against the current trunk (applying it against 1.3beta
should also work).

Stefan
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