[lxml-dev] Serialization to file does not report error

Stefan Behnel stefan_ml at behnel.de
Thu Jan 29 07:33:54 CET 2009


Hi,

Frédéric Mantegazza wrote:
> I use the following code to serialize a tree to a file:
> 
> tree.write(self.__fileName, pretty_print=True, xml_declaration=True)
> 
> if the file pointed by self.__fileName is not writable (not owned by the 
> current user), the call silently exits, but the file is not written.

Definitely works for me with newer releases.

Stefan



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