[lxml-dev] Encoding again

[Stefan Behnel]

Hi,

Max Ivanov wrote:
> Is there any way to force lxml  to make element.text and element.tail
> to be exactly the same as in original text, without any encoding
> manipulation? Or to restore them to original state, i.e. maybe
> somewhere inside lxml there is a var which contain original encoding,
> so I could do elelemt.text.encode('...').?

I'm not sure I understand what you want, but in case you want lxml.etree to
return the encoded byte string instead of the unicode string: no, there is no
switch to do that. I have no idea why you would want to do that, though.

The original encoding is stored in the docinfo property of the ElementTree of
the document.

Stefan