Hi, Bill Janssen wrote: >> I suspect there's a certain amount of unarticulated assumptions on both >> sides of this exchange. I'm guessing that Bill might be thinking >> something like: "it's possible to represent any Unicode character in XML >> as &#<code-position-for character>"; and was hoping that the method >> would do just that for the non-ASCII characters if he asks for ASCII >> encoding. > > Yep, that's what I was thinking. I don't see any other reason to have > that parameter there.
Have you considered that it may be there to allow other encodings than UTF-8? Check the codecs module to see how many others there are. Stefan _______________________________________________ XML-SIG maillist - XML-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/xml-sig