EZ added the comment:
First, I hope we all agree:
'C:\Windows' and '/usr/bin' == absolute path
'Windows' and 'bin' == relative path
'C:\Program Files' and '/bin' == absolute path
'C:\Windows\..\Program Files' and '/usr/../bin' == relative path
It is very confusing between these two
New submission from EZ :
The documentation[0] for 3.x of xml.etree.ElementTree.tostring is quite clear:
> Use encoding="unicode" to generate a Unicode string.
See also the creation of the problem:
https://bugs.python.org/issue10942
This is a violation of W3 standard