From 612fcd1cf522392d5c44c6e1ceea89ff0f8dd089 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Romain Bignon <romain@peerfuse.org>
Date: Sun, 4 Apr 2010 14:34:30 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] function tostring() to get HTML string from element

---
 weboob/tools/parser.py | 9 +++++++++
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)

diff --git a/weboob/tools/parser.py b/weboob/tools/parser.py
index 97de079c..62a080e8 100644
--- a/weboob/tools/parser.py
+++ b/weboob/tools/parser.py
@@ -69,3 +69,12 @@ class StandardParser(object):
             if elem.tag.startswith('{'):
                 elem.tag = elem.tag[elem.tag.find('}')+1:]
         return tree
+
+def tostring(element):
+    e = ElementTree.Element('body')
+    e.text = element.text
+    e.tail = element.tail
+    for sub in element.getchildren():
+        e.append(sub)
+    s = ElementTree.tostring(e, 'utf-8')
+    return unicode(s)