[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> How about trying >> root = ElementTree.parse(urlopen(query), encoding ='utf-8')
That doesn't work. > this specific thing is not working, however, parsing the url is not > problematic. So you tried parsing the complete XML file and it works? Then it's the way you stripped it down to the interesting parts that broke it. Not ElementTree's fault. > the problem is that after parsing the xml at the url I > save some of the fields to a local file and the local file is not > being parsed properly due to the non-ascii characters Sauni\xc3\xa8re > (french name: Saunière). That looks like it parsed UTF-8 as some single byte encoding, such as iso-8859-1. Check if the file you saved retained the XML declaration <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?> > I'm quite new to xml and python so I guess there must be something > wrong or dumb in the way I save the file (maybe I miss some important > tags?) or in the way I re-open it but I can't find whats wrong. As I said, try to read the interesting portions of the XML file programmatically (especially if you want to do it more than once), or use an editor that supports UTF-8 and/or XML when you edit it (i.e.: use an editor). Make sure the XML file is well-formed (use e.g. xmllint) when you're save it. Otherwise, no XML parser will accept it. Stefan -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
