> Well, what did you expect? That it magically transmogrifies your non-ASCII > data into plain ASCII data?
Yep. And there's no reason I can see why it can't do exactly that. I think the "encoding" argument should either be removed, or made to work. Bill _______________________________________________ XML-SIG maillist - XML-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/xml-sig