if you're getting this on the way in, something is broken (posting a short self-contained test program will help us figure out what's wrong).
Or he tries to pass a unicode object to parseString. Regards, Diez
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*- import xml.dom.minidom dom3 = xml.dom.minidom.parseString(u'<myxml>wir hoffen ihr habt den sommer schÂn verbracht<empty/> some more data</myxml>') print dom3
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