Florent Xicluna <florent.xicl...@gmail.com> added the comment: Currently "tree.write(file)" returns Unicode in 3.1 (and 3.x). I would propose the following change:
>>> tree.write(file) # ==> encode to ASCII without xml declaration (compatible 2.x) >>> tree.write(file, encoding="utf-8") # ==> encode to UTF-8 without xml declaration (compatible 2.x + 3.1) >>> tree.write(file, encoding=False) # ==> output Unicode, without xml declaration (compatible 3.1) The "xml_declaration" keyword argument can be set to True explicitly. For compatibility with lxml.etree, "encoding=str" returns the same as "encoding=False". Functions tostring() and tostringlist() will inherit the same behavior. This change could be backported to 2.7, because it is backward compatible. See proposed patch for implementation details. ---------- keywords: +patch Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file16543/issue8047_etree_encoding.diff _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue8047> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
