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Diffstat (limited to 'libbe/comment.py')
| -rw-r--r-- | libbe/comment.py | 5 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/libbe/comment.py b/libbe/comment.py index 1adb6f4..e3dfea0 100644 --- a/libbe/comment.py +++ b/libbe/comment.py @@ -373,7 +373,10 @@ class Comment(Tree, settings_object.SavedSettingsObject): """ if type(xml_string) == types.UnicodeType: xml_string = xml_string.strip().encode('unicode_escape') - comment = ElementTree.XML(xml_string) + if hasattr(xml_string, 'getchildren'): # already an ElementTree Element + comment = xml_string + else: + comment = ElementTree.XML(xml_string) if comment.tag != 'comment': raise utility.InvalidXML( \ 'comment', comment, 'root element must be <comment>') |