Peter> Isn't UTF-8 the default? Apparently not. I believe in my reading it said that it used whatever locale.getpreferredencoding() returned. That's problematic when you live in a country that thinks ASCII is everything. Personally, I think UTF-8 should be the default, but that train's long left the station, at least for Python 2.x.
> Try opening the file in binary mode then: > > with io.open(fname, "rb") as f: > root = xml.tree.ElementTree.parse(f).getroot() Thanks, that worked. Would appreciate an explanation of why binary mode was necessary. It would seem that since the file contents are text, just in a non-ASCII encoding, that specifying the encoding when opening the file should do the trick. Skip -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
