[lxml-dev] lxml 1.3 coming up

[Stefan Behnel]

jholg at gmx.de wrote:
> another small proposed change:
> 
> Index: src/lxml/objectify.pyx
> ===================================================================
> --- src/lxml/objectify.pyx      (revision 44363)
> +++ src/lxml/objectify.pyx      (working copy)
> @@ -759,7 +759,7 @@
>              return self.__nonzero__()
>  
>  def __checkBool(s):
> -    if s != 'true' and s != 'false':
> +    if s != 'true' and s != 'false' and s != '1' and s != '0':
>          raise ValueError
>  
>  cdef object _strValueOf(obj):
> 
> Otherwise, annotate(<elt>, ignore_old=False) will revert a correctly pre-annotated boolean element with a text value of "0" and "1", which XML Schema datatypes allows, to py:pytype="int".
> It still does this for ignore_old=True which is the default.

Hmmm, not a great change, but it's acceptable as long as we register numeric
types before the boolean type (which we currently do anyway).

Applied for now.

Stefan