xml element inside text node

[SgtPembry]

While looking for a solution… I think there might be something around .tail. I don't really understand the .tail principle and an answer could be there.

No?

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OK. This works.

import xml.etree.ElementTree as ET
import re

action = ET.Element('act')
action.text = 'A guy enters the room and **Slam!** shuts the door.'

look = re.search('\*\*.+\*\*',action.text)

if look != None:
	t1 = action.text[0:look.span()[0]]
	t2 = action.text[look.span()[0]+2:look.span()[1]-2]
	t3 = action.text[look.span()[1]:]
	action.text = t1
	bold = ET.SubElement(action,'bold')
	bold.text = t2
	bold.tail = t3

print(ET.tostring(action))

If someone finds something to do better…