lxml.html.tostring() lacks essential with_tail option that lxml.etree.tostring() has

[Jonathan Eunice]

PROBLEM STATEMENT

lxml.etree.tostring() now has a with_tail option, but the parallel lxml.html.tostring() does not.

CODE SAMPLE

frag = lxml.html.fromstring('<p>This stuff is <em>really</em> great!</p>')
em = frag.cssselect('em').pop(0)
print lxml.etree.tostring(em, with_tail=False)
print lxml.html.tostring(em, with_tail=False)

fails on the last line with "TypeError: tostring() got an unexpected keyword argument 'with_tail' "

ENVIRONMENT TESTED

Python : sys.version_info(major=2, minor=7, micro=1, releaselevel='final', serial=0)
lxml.etree : (2, 3, -99, 0)
libxml used : (2, 7, 7)
libxml compiled : (2, 7, 7)
libxslt used : (1, 1, 26)

[scoder (scoder)]

What about providing a patch?

[scoder (scoder)]

Implemented here:

https://github.com/lxml/lxml/commit/d1f369f456106ad593dfb8a47fc6033a8234df29

Now, that wasn't all that hard, was it?

[scoder (scoder)]

Fixed in lxml 2.3.3.