phyllisstein/alp — pull request #11 by cjlucas (2013-03-28 01:11:03+00:00)
Title: fix for XML serialization TypeError exception in item.feedback()

Code:
```
import alp

item = alp.Item(
title="Title",
subtitle="Subtitle",
arg="",
)

alp.feedback(item)
```

Traceback:
```
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "crash.py", line 9, in
alp.feedback(item)
File "/Users/chris/repos/tower-alfred-workflow/net.cjlucas.alfred.tower/alp/item.py", line 88, in feedback
print ET.tostring(feedback, encoding="utf-8")
File "/usr/local/Cellar/python/2.7.3/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/xml/etree/ElementTree.py", line 1127, in tostring
ElementTree(element).write(file, encoding, method=method)
File "/usr/local/Cellar/python/2.7.3/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/xml/etree/ElementTree.py", line 821, in write
serialize(write, self._root, encoding, qnames, namespaces)
File "/usr/local/Cellar/python/2.7.3/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/xml/etree/ElementTree.py", line 940, in _serialize_xml
_serialize_xml(write, e, encoding, qnames, None)
File "/usr/local/Cellar/python/2.7.3/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/xml/etree/ElementTree.py", line 933, in _serialize_xml
v = _escape_attrib(v, encoding)
File "/usr/local/Cellar/python/2.7.3/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/xml/etree/ElementTree.py", line 1093, in _escape_attrib
_raise_serialization_error(text)
File "/usr/local/Cellar/python/2.7.3/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/xml/etree/ElementTree.py", line 1053, in _raise_serialization_error
"cannot serialize %r (type %s)" % (text, type(text).__name__)
TypeError: cannot serialize None (type NoneType)
```

The python xml library apparently doesn't like NoneType.

This fix will prevent variables equal to None from being serialized.