Fredrik Lundh schrieb: > Diez B. Roggisch wrote: > >> Filenames are expected to be bytestrings. So what happens is that the >> unicode string you pass as filename gets implicitly converted using the >> default encoding. > > it is ?
Yes. While you can pass Unicode strings as file names to many Python functions, you can't pass them to Expat, as Expat requires the file name as a byte string. Hence the error. Regards, Martin P.S. and just to anticipate nit-picking: yes, you can pass a Unicode string to Expat, too, as long as the Unicode string only contains ASCII characters. And yes, it doesn't have to be ASCII, if you change the system default encoding. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
