# Lookup TITLE in the root
title = root.title
- if title is None:
- title = ''
- elif title.string:
- title = title.string.encode(_charset)
- else:
- title = str(title)
+ if title is not None:
+ if title.string:
+ title = title.string.encode(_charset)
+ else:
+ parts = []
+ for part in title:
+ if not isinstance(part, basestring):
+ part = unicode(part)
+ parts.append(part.strip())
+ title = ''.join(parts).encode(_charset)
meta = head.find(_find_contenttype, recursive=False)
if meta: