elementtidy, \0 chars and parsing from a string

[Steven Bethard]

So I see that elementtidy doesn't like strings with \0 characters in them:
[color=blue][color=green][color=darkred]
>>> import urllib
>>> from elementtidy import TidyHTMLTreeBui lder
>>> url = 'http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/492215.stm'
>>> url_file = urllib.urlopen( url)
>>> tree = TidyHTMLTreeBui lder.parse(url_ file)[/color][/color][/color]
Traceback (most recent call last):
...
File "...elementtidy \TidyHTMLTreeBu ilder.py", line 90, in close
stdout, stderr = _elementtidy.fi xup(*args)
TypeError: fixup() argument 1 must be string without null bytes, not str

The obvious solution would be to str.replace('\0 ', '') on the file's
text, but I'm not sure how to ask elementtidy to parse from a string
instead of a file-like object. Do I need to wrap it in a StringIO, or
is there a better way?

STeVe

[Simon Percivall]

Re: elementtidy, \0 chars and parsing from a string

Well, it seems you can do:

parser = elementtidy.Tid yHTMLTreeBuilde r.TidyHTMLTreeB uilder()
parser.feed(you r_str)
tree = elementtree.Ele mentTree.Elemen tTree(element=p arser.close())

Look at the parse() method in the ElementTree class.