feedparser.org also works really well for this sort of thing. Does a lot of the unicode automagically for you.
--michael On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 8:58 AM, Tom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Finally got it working. I used your suggestion Rui, but I also had to > change the charset encoding that my database was using. Changed from > Latin-1 to UCS2. > > I read http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/Unicode.html too. > Essential reading. > > Thanks. > > > > On 26/02/2008, rui <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello Tom, > > > > Try doing this: > > > > xml = unicode(xml, encoding, "ignore") > > elem = ElementTree.fromstring(xml.encode("utf8")) > > > > > > > #do stuff with elem... > > > > > > feed.xml = xml > > > feed.save() > > > > > > > > > Thanks for your time :-) > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org > > > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > Rui > > http://ruivaldo.wordpress.com > > > > "Rubi? Aquela novela do SBT?" > > ~ Carla Perez sobre Ruby > > > > "Em Python, tudo é objeto, além de lindo e maravilhoso." > > ~ Caetano Veloso sobre Python > > > _______________________________________________ > Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor > -- Michael Langford Phone: 404-386-0495 Consulting: http://www.RowdyLabs.com _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor