[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I wanted to see what would happen if one used the results of a tostring > method as input into the XML method. What I observed is this: > a) beforeCtag.text is of type <type 'str'> > b) beforeCtag.text when printed displays: I'm confused > c) afterCtag.text is of type <type 'unicode'> > d) afterCtag.text when printed displays: I?m confused
the XML file format isn't a Python string serialization format, it's an XML infoset serialization format. as stated in the documentation, ET always uses Unicode strings for text that contain non-ASCII characters. for text that *only* contains ASCII, it may use either Unicode strings or 8-bit strings, depending on the implementation. the behaviour if you're passing in non-ASCII text as 8-bit strings is undefined (which means that you shouldn't do that; it's not portable). to learn more about Unicode in Python, google for "python unicode". </F> -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
