Woo-hoo! Everything is working now! Thank you everyone!
The TWO problems I had: 1) I needed to save my XML file in the first place with this code: f = codecs.open(paths[0], 'w', 'utf8') 2) I needed to download the UNICODE version of wxPython, duh. So why are there non-UNICODE versions of wxPython??? To save memory or something??? Thank you all! Best! -Erik -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list