elementtidy, \0 chars and parsing from a string

[Steven Bethard]

So I see that elementtidy doesn't like strings with \0 characters in them:

import urllib
from elementtidy import TidyHTMLTreeBuilder
url = 'http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/492215.stm'
url_file = urllib.urlopen(url)
tree = TidyHTMLTreeBuilder.parse(url_file)

Traceback (most recent call last):
...
File "...elementtidy\TidyHTMLTreeBuilder.py", line 90, in close
stdout, stderr = _elementtidy.fixup(*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]

Well, it seems you can do:

parser = elementtidy.TidyHTMLTreeBuilder.TidyHTMLTreeBuilde r()
parser.feed(your_str)
tree = elementtree.ElementTree.ElementTree(element=parser .close())

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