Vanilla (this works fine):
#!/usr/bin/python
from elementtree import ElementTree as etree
eg = """redblue"""
xml = etree.fromstring(eg)
If I change the example string to this:
redblu�
I get the following error:
xml.parsers.expat.ExpatError: not well-formed (invalid token): line 1,
column 32)
Thanks for the help thusfar. To recap - when parsing XML, ElementTree
is barfing on extended characters.
1. Yes, most XML is written by monkeys, or the programs written by such
monkeys - tough beans, I cannot make my input XML any cleaner without
pre-processing - I am not generating it.
2. The d
For what it's worth, the vast majority of the XML out there (especially if
you're parsing RSS feeds, etc.) is written by monkeys and is totally
ill-formed. It seems the days of 'it looked OK in my browser' are still here.
To find out if it's your app or the XML, you could try running the XML thro
William O'Higgins Witteman wrote:
> I've been struggling with encodings in my XML input to Python programs.
>
> Here's the situation - my program has no declared encoding, so it
> defaults to ASCII. It's written in Unicode, but apparently that isn't
> confusing to the parser. Fine by me. I impo
Inputting XML into a Python program has nothing to do with what encoding the python source is in.So it seems to me that that particular PEP doesn't apply in this case at all.I'm guessing that the ElementTree module has an option to use Unicode input.
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I've been struggling with encodings in my XML input to Python programs.
Here's the situation - my program has no declared encoding, so it
defaults to ASCII. It's written in Unicode, but apparently that isn't
confusing to the parser. Fine by me. I import some XML, probably
encoded in the Windows
