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Diffstat (limited to 'src/lxml/html/diff.py')
| -rw-r--r-- | src/lxml/html/diff.py | 9 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/src/lxml/html/diff.py b/src/lxml/html/diff.py index e0b333db..3b3ad8e7 100644 --- a/src/lxml/html/diff.py +++ b/src/lxml/html/diff.py @@ -11,6 +11,11 @@ try: except NameError: # Python 3 _unicode = str +try: + basestring = __builtins__["basestring"] +except (KeyError, NameError): + # Python 3 + basestring = str ############################################################ ## Annotation @@ -748,9 +753,9 @@ def serialize_html_fragment(el, skip_outer=False): html = etree.tostring(el, method="html", encoding="UTF-8") if skip_outer: # Get rid of the extra starting tag: - html = html[html.find('>')+1:] + html = html[html.find('>'.encode("ASCII"))+1:] # Get rid of the extra end tag: - html = html[:html.rfind('<')] + html = html[:html.rfind('<'.encode("ASCII"))] return html.strip() else: return html |