On 17 March 2012 10:43, Stefan Behnel <stefan...@behnel.de> wrote: > In lxml, there was an "encoding=unicode" option that would let the > XML/HTML/text serialisation function return a Unicode string. This was > eventually deprecated in favour of "encoding='unicode'" when ElementTree > gained this feature as well some years later.
That's this issue: http://bugs.python.org/issue8047 The thread also suggests the options encoding=False and encoding=None Considering ET uses encoding="unicode" to signal 'don't encode', I agree with you that using encoding="bytes" to signal 'don't encode' would be sensible. However, ET /also/ allows encoding=str.What about allowing both encoding="bytes" /and/ encoding=bytes? Best, Merlijn _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
