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XML hate

Had a need to download and install html5lib the other day, and was most amused to find a module called ihatexml.py lurking there in the source code!…

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2 Responses to “XML hate”

  1. dryfish Says:
    March 14th, 2009 at 7:35 pm

    What’s this all about?

    max_unicode = int(”FFFF”, 16)

    (in ihatexml.py)

  2. Nick Says:
    March 15th, 2009 at 7:22 pm

    I presume it is defining the maximum unicode value - but I’m not sure why it didn’t do the more obvious

    max_unicode = 0xffff

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