Fredrik Lundh <fred...@effbot.org> added the comment: "Yes, the feature has been implemented deep down in the _encode() helper function, so it impacts the entire serialiser, not only its API"
Ouch. >>> import locale >>> locale.getpreferredencoding() == "utf-8" False >>> from xml.etree.ElementTree import * >>> e = Element("tag") >>> e.text = "hellö" >>> tostring(e) '<tag>hellö</tag>' >>> ElementTree(e).write("out.xml") >>> tree = parse("out.xml") Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> File "C:\Python31\lib\xml\etree\ElementTree.py", line 843, in parse tree.parse(source, parser) File "C:\Python31\lib\xml\etree\ElementTree.py", line 581, in parse parser.feed(data) File "C:\Python31\lib\xml\etree\ElementTree.py", line 1221, in feed self._parser.Parse(data, 0) xml.parsers.expat.ExpatError: not well-formed (invalid token): line 1, column 9 ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue8047> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com