[issue9692] UnicodeDecodeError in ElementTree.tostring()

Florent Xicluna added the comment: I propose to close this as won't fix. The upgrade to ElementTree 1.3 brought some consistency when dealing with Unicode and encodings. The reported behavior was only seen in Python 2.7, when using bytes improperly. -- nosy: +eli.bendersky resolution

[issue9692] UnicodeDecodeError in ElementTree.tostring()

Ulrich Seidl added the comment: I would suggest adding an additional except branch to (at least) the following functions of ElementTree.py: * _encode, * _escape_attrib, and * _escape_cdata The except branch could look like: except (UnicodeDecodeError): return text.decode( encoding ).enco

[issue9692] UnicodeDecodeError in ElementTree.tostring()

Ulrich Seidl added the comment: Well, the output of the print is not that interesting as long as ElementTree is able the restore the former attributes value when reading it in again. The print was just used to illustrate that an UnicodeDecodeError appears. Think about doing an ElementTree.fr

[issue9692] UnicodeDecodeError in ElementTree.tostring()

Amaury Forgeot d'Arc added the comment: Testing with python 2.5: oDoc.set("ATTR", "ÄÖÜ") uses the encoding used by the source code (with "# -*- coding:";) If I use utf-8 instead, the output is: which contains the numbers of the 3 pairs of surrogates. -- ___

[issue9692] UnicodeDecodeError in ElementTree.tostring()

Ulrich Seidl added the comment: Of course, if you use an unicode string it works and of course it would be easy to switch to unicode for this demo code. Unfortunately, the affected application is a little bit more complex and it is not that easy to switch to unicode. I just wonder why the tos

[issue9692] UnicodeDecodeError in ElementTree.tostring()

Amaury Forgeot d'Arc added the comment: IMO the code is not correct: how does ElementTree know which encoding is used for the attribute value? Even 2.5 prints a different content when the script is saved with a different encoding. The line should look like: oDoc.set( "ATTR", u"ÄÖÜ" ) or

[issue9692] UnicodeDecodeError in ElementTree.tostring()

Changes by Brian Curtin : -- nosy: +flox stage: -> needs patch type: -> behavior ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailing

[issue9692] UnicodeDecodeError in ElementTree.tostring()

New submission from Ulrich Seidl : The following code leads to an UnicodeError in python 2.7 while it works fine in 2.6 & 2.5: # -*- coding: latin-1 -*- import xml.etree.cElementTree as ElementTree oDoc = ElementTree.fromstring( '' ) oDoc.set( "ATTR", "ÄÖÜ" ) print ElementTree.tostring( oD