On Wed, 28 Dec 2016 02:05 am, Skip Montanaro wrote:
> I am trying to parse some XML which doesn't specify an encoding (Python
> 2.7.12 via Anaconda on RH Linux), so it barfs when it encounters non-ASCII
> data. No great surprise there, but I'm having trouble getting it to use
> another encoding. F
Peter Otten wrote:
> works, but to go back to the bytes that the XML parser needs the
> "preferred encoding", in your case ASCII, will be used.
Correction: it's probably sys.getdefaultencoding() rather than
locale.getdefaultencoding(). So all systems with a sane configuration will
behave the sa
Skip Montanaro wrote:
> Peter> Isn't UTF-8 the default?
>
> Apparently not.
Sorry, I meant the default for XML.
> I believe in my reading it said that it used whatever
> locale.getpreferredencoding() returned. That's problematic when you
> live in a country that thinks ASCII is everything. Per
Peter> Isn't UTF-8 the default?
Apparently not. I believe in my reading it said that it used whatever
locale.getpreferredencoding() returned. That's problematic when you
live in a country that thinks ASCII is everything. Personally, I think
UTF-8 should be the default, but that train's long left t
Skip Montanaro wrote:
> I am trying to parse some XML which doesn't specify an encoding (Python
> 2.7.12 via Anaconda on RH Linux), so it barfs when it encounters non-ASCII
> data. No great surprise there, but I'm having trouble getting it to use
> another encoding. First, I tried specifying the e
I am trying to parse some XML which doesn't specify an encoding (Python 2.7.12
via Anaconda on RH Linux), so it barfs when it encounters non-ASCII data. No
great surprise there, but I'm having trouble getting it to use another
encoding. First, I tried specifying the encoding when opening the fil
