commit b09b16741930e614d95cc51172f0106e3c8ecc00
author Eli Bendersky <eliben@gmail.com> Sun Jan 13 05:22:05 2013 -0800
committer Eli Bendersky <eliben@gmail.com> Sun Jan 13 05:22:05 2013 -0800
tree 99bfacfd30114c88888867c643fabbedbbc9bf73
parent ce1519d250ca457e60a91943d7686e2b85764170

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 c36af5d..17d5d09 100644
--- a/Modules/_elementtree.c
+++ b/Modules/_elementtree.c
@@ -840,7 +840,7 @@
 
             PyObject* text = element_get_text(item);
             if (text == Py_None)
-                return PyBytes_FromString("");
+                return PyUnicode_FromString("");
             Py_XINCREF(text);
             return text;
         }