[Yum-devel] [PATCH] new dump_xml methods for repodata and repomd and related changes

[Ville Skyttä]

On Wednesday 14 April 2010, Mike Bonnet wrote:

> We're sure self.revision will never be a unicode object?  Maybe it needs
> a to_xml() also?  Unexpected coercions to unicode were a major source of
> problems with mergerepos in Koji, so I'm a little paranoid about this.

Doesn't Python have some kind of a easy-to-use library for outputting XML that 
would just do to the right thing that could be used instead of string 
concatenation and having to worry about these things and escaping in general?