[lxml-dev] extracting .text strings systematically in unicode

[Stefan Behnel]

John Lovell wrote:
> The first one is the one the raises an exception for non-strings?

  Python 2.6.1 (r261:67515, Dec  7 2008, 21:12:01)
  [GCC 4.1.3 20070929 (prerelease) (Ubuntu 4.1.2-16ubuntu2)] on linux2
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  >>> u""+1
  Traceback (most recent call last):
    File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  TypeError: coercing to Unicode: need string or buffer, int found

Stefan