Dirty fix for error '_object_has_no_attribute_'getSlave' in EtherCAT extension

traceback:
File "/home/developer/WorkData/PLC/beremiz/beremiz/IDEFrame.py", line 1433, in OnPouSelectedChanged
window.RefreshView()
File "/home/developer/WorkData/PLC/beremiz/beremiz/etherlab/ConfigEditor.py", line 837, in RefreshView
self.RefreshProcessVariables()
File "/home/developer/WorkData/PLC/beremiz/beremiz/etherlab/ConfigEditor.py", line 886, in RefreshProcessVariables
slaves = self.Controler.GetSlaves(**self.CurrentNodesFilter)
File "/home/developer/WorkData/PLC/beremiz/beremiz/etherlab/EthercatMaster.py", line 341, in GetSlaves
for slave in self.Config.getConfig().getSlave():
<type 'exceptions.AttributeError'>:_'lxml.etree._Element'_object_has_no_attribute_'getSlave'

Steps to reproduce problem:

- Add new EtherCAT master
- Add new EthercatNode to the master
- double click on


this is looks like dirty hack to fix strange problem with initial[0]
changing its type after returning from _init_ method to lxml.etree._Element
As a result all methods generated by class factory are lost.

For example, in function initMethod initial[0].__class__ points to
xmlclass.xmlclass.Config. After map(self.append, initial)
self.Config.__class__ is 'xmlclass.xmlclass.Config' as well.
But after returning from initMethod (_init) in CreateElement
self.Config.__class__ has changed to lxml.etree._Element.


I've noticed similar behavior if copy/deepcopy is used for any child
of etree.ElementBase. See simple example below.
[-------------------------------------------------------------]
#!/usr/bin/python

from __future__ import print_function
from lxml import etree
import copy

class DefaultElementClass(etree.ElementBase):
def getLocalTag(self):
return etree.QName(self.tag).localname


def printInformation(x):
print(x, x.__class__, "getLocalTag" in dir(x))


a = DefaultElementClass()
printInformation(a)

#
printInformation(copy.copy(a))
printInformation(copy.deepcopy(a))
[-------------------------------------------------------------]

<?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8'?>
<PyFile xmlns:xhtml="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema">
  <variables/>
  <globals>
    <xhtml:p><![CDATA[import threading, time

MyT = None
Stop = False

def StartLog():
    global MyT
    MyT=threading.Thread(target = DoLog)
    MyT.start()

def DoLog():
    global Stop
    while not Stop:
        PLCObject.LogMessage("Python side Logging (PLC is %s)"%PLCObject.PLCStatus)
        time.sleep(0.3)

def StopLog():
    global MyT,Stop
    Stop=True

_runtime_init.append(StartLog)
_runtime_cleanup.append(StopLog)
]]></xhtml:p>
  </globals>
  <init>
    <xhtml:p><![CDATA[]]></xhtml:p>
  </init>
  <cleanup>
    <xhtml:p><![CDATA[]]></xhtml:p>
  </cleanup>
  <start>
    <xhtml:p><![CDATA[]]></xhtml:p>
  </start>
  <stop>
    <xhtml:p><![CDATA[]]></xhtml:p>
  </stop>
</PyFile>