Re: [Tutor] XML parsing when elements contain foreign characters

2014-01-09 Thread Stefan Behnel
Garry Bettle, 09.01.2014 09:50: > I'm trying to parse some XML and I'm struggling to reference elements that > contain foreign characters. I skipped over Steven's response and he apparently invested quite a bit of time in writing it up so nicely, so I can happily agree and just add one little comm

Re: [Tutor] XML parsing when elements contain foreign characters

2014-01-09 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Thu, Jan 09, 2014 at 09:50:24AM +0100, Garry Bettle wrote: > I'm trying to parse some XML and I'm struggling to reference elements that > contain foreign characters. I see from your use of print that you're using Python 2. That means that strings '' are actually byte-strings, not text-strings

[Tutor] XML parsing when elements contain foreign characters

2014-01-09 Thread Garry Bettle
Howdy all, Have you hear the news? Happy New Year! Hope someone can help. I know this is a tutor list so please feel free to send me somewhere else. I'm trying to parse some XML and I'm struggling to reference elements that contain foreign characters. Code so far: # -*- coding: utf-8 -*- from