Ksenia Marasanova wrote: > Sorry, I meant: I use field of the type 'text' in a Postgres table to > store my data. The data is a XML string. > > > Instead of "print data", do "print repr(data)" and show us what you > > get. What *you* see on the screen is not much use for diagnosis; it's > > the values of the bytes in the file that matter. > > Thanks for this valuable tip. I take letter "é" as an example. > > "print repr(data)" shows this: > u'\xe9'
That doesn't look like an "XML string" to me. Show the WHOLE contents of the field. Have you read the docs of the Perl module of which pyXLWrtiter is a docs-free port? Right down the end it mutters something about XML parsers returning UTF8 which will jam up the works if fed into an Excel spreadsheet ... -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
