New submission from STINNER Victor: The ElementTree module (xml.etree) avoids the XML declaration for "utf-8" and "us-ascii" codecs, but not for the "ascii" encoding.
Attached patch avoids the XML declaration for the "ascii" codec since it's a subset of UTF-8 and UTF-8 is the default encoding of XML. The patch also normalizes the encoding name to handle aliases like "utf8" (UTF-8) or "us_ascii" (ASCII). The patch adds unit tests. -- By the way, I'm surprised that the special encoding "unicode" relies on the *current* locale encoding when the XML declaration is requested. Why not alway susing UTF-8 for *unicode* instead of the locale encoding? My unit test tests different locale encodings. ---------- components: XML files: etree_xml_declaration.patch keywords: patch messages: 274227 nosy: haypo priority: normal severity: normal status: open title: xml.etree: Avoid XML declaration for the "ascii" encoding type: enhancement versions: Python 3.6 Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file44346/etree_xml_declaration.patch _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue27940> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
