From: Fred Drake <fdrake@acm.org>
Date: Mon, 8 Jan 2001 04:04:34 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Text.__init__():  Make sure the data parameter is a string (8-bit or
X-Git-Tag: v2.1a1~389
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=daa823ad9a2d8c76ddc152b1ccae26251500efda;p=thirdparty%2FPython%2Fcpython.git

Text.__init__():  Make sure the data parameter is a string (8-bit or
                  Unicode); raise TypeError if not.

This closes SF bug #126866.
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diff --git a/Lib/xml/dom/minidom.py b/Lib/xml/dom/minidom.py
index 74c9664dfb0e..65af4c72315d 100644
--- a/Lib/xml/dom/minidom.py
+++ b/Lib/xml/dom/minidom.py
@@ -553,6 +553,8 @@ class Text(Node):
     childNodeTypes = ()
     
     def __init__(self, data):
+        if type(data) not in _StringTypes:
+            raise TypeError, "node contents must be a string"
         Node.__init__(self)
         self.data = self.nodeValue = data