lxml.etree, element.text doesn't return the entire text from an element

Question

I scrapped some html via xpath, that I then converted into an etree. Something similar to this:

 text1  link  text2 
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Answer 1

looks like an lxml bug to me, but according to design if you read the documentation. I've solved it like this:

def node_text(node):
    if node.text:
        result = node.text
    else:
        result = ''
    for child in node:
        if child.tail is not None:
            result += child.tail
    return result