Re: .text_content() should leave spaces. Tests included

Max Ivanov wrote:
>>>      for el in doc.iter():
>>>          if el.text and (el.tag not in self.inlinetags):
>>>              el.text = ''.join((' ',el.text))
>>>          if el.tail and (el.tag not in self.inlinetags):
>>>              el.tail += ' '
>>>          if el.tag == 'br':
>>>              if el.tail and not el.tail.startswith('\n'):
>>>                  el.tail = '\n'+el.tail
>>>              else:
>>>                  el.tail = '\n'
>>>              el.drop_tag()
>>
>> You're modifying the tree here, which is inacceptable for a function
>> that
>> returns a (partial) string serialisation. Apart from that, this seems
>> like a workable solution to your problem.
>
> What's wrong with modifying tree?

I was seeing it in the context of the text_content() method, where tree
modification must not happen.

Stefan