commit 25771b3749cac588ad2ecc8fc796a496d35769e5
author Eli Bendersky <eliben@gmail.com> Sun Jan 13 05:26:07 2013 -0800
committer Eli Bendersky <eliben@gmail.com> Sun Jan 13 05:26:07 2013 -0800
tree a52dd4608188b760df8202c60501f51fa275bd4c
parent a9edb6c4d1daa0749547a115ee4b02cc5b8d8ecd

Issue #16922: fixed findtext() to return empty Unicode string instead of empty bytes object when there's no text.

Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.

Modules/_elementtree.c

diff --git a/Modules/_elementtree.c b/Modules/_elementtree.c
index 274c65e..49441cc 100644
--- a/Modules/_elementtree.c
+++ b/Modules/_elementtree.c
@@ -1129,7 +1129,7 @@
 
             PyObject* text = element_get_text(item);
             if (text == Py_None)
-                return PyBytes_FromString("");
+                return PyUnicode_New(0, 0);
             Py_XINCREF(text);
             return text;
         }