> How about trying > root = ElementTree.parse(urlopen(query), encoding ='utf-8') >
this specific thing is not working, however, parsing the url is not problematic. the problem is that after parsing the xml at the url I save some of the fields to a local file and the local file is not being parsed properly due to the non-ascii characters Sauni\xc3\xa8re (french name: Saunière). an example of the file can be found in the first posting, you could copy+paste+save it to your machine then try to parse it. I'm quite new to xml and python so I guess there must be something wrong or dumb in the way I save the file (maybe I miss some important tags?) or in the way I re-open it but I can't find whats wrong. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
