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

[J. Clifford Dyer]

> 
On Tue, 2008-12-09 at 10:11 -0800, John Lovell wrote:
> The first one is the one the raises an exception for non-strings?
> 
> John
> 


Yes:

Python 2.5.2 (r252:60911, Oct  5 2008, 19:24:49) 
[GCC 4.3.2] on linux2
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>>> unicode(1)
u'1'
>>> u""+1
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
TypeError: coercing to Unicode: need string or buffer, int found
>>>