Fredrik Lundh schrieb: > Martin v. Löwis wrote: > >> 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. > > sounds like a bug in the xml.sax layer, really (ET also uses Expat, and > doesn't seem to have any problems dealing with unicode filenames...)
That's because ET never invokes XML_SetBase. Without testing, this suggests that there might be problem in ET with relative URIs in parsed external entities. XML_SetBase expects a char* for the base URI. Regards, Martin -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
