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Diffstat (limited to 'libbe/comment.py')
| -rw-r--r-- | libbe/comment.py | 8 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/libbe/comment.py b/libbe/comment.py index 6350e2c..8ffb3cd 100644 --- a/libbe/comment.py +++ b/libbe/comment.py @@ -340,7 +340,7 @@ class Comment (Tree, settings_object.SavedSettingsObject): sep = '\n' + istring return istring + sep.join(lines).rstrip('\n') - def from_xml(self, xml_string, verbose=True): + def from_xml(self, xml_string, preserve_uuids=False, verbose=True): u""" Note: If alt-id is not given, translates any <uuid> fields to <alt-id> fields. @@ -360,6 +360,10 @@ class Comment (Tree, settings_object.SavedSettingsObject): >>> commB.alt_id = None >>> commB.xml() == xml True + >>> commC = Comment() + >>> commC.from_xml(xml, preserve_uuids=True) + >>> commC.uuid == commA.uuid + True """ if type(xml_string) == types.UnicodeType: xml_string = xml_string.strip().encode('unicode_escape') @@ -385,7 +389,7 @@ class Comment (Tree, settings_object.SavedSettingsObject): else: text = xml.sax.saxutils.unescape(child.text) text = text.decode('unicode_escape').strip() - if child.tag == 'uuid': + if child.tag == 'uuid' and not preserve_uuids: uuid = text continue # don't set the comment's uuid tag. elif child.tag == 'body': |