[Python-3000] str/unicode tests: pyexpat.c and read(n)

[Talin]

Greg Ewing wrote:
> Guido van Rossum wrote:
>> Now I'm confused. Are we proposing that all our XML APIs read and
>> write encoded bytes, or are we proposing that they read and write
>> Unicode strings, leaving the encoding/decoding to the I/O stream?
> 
> The design of XML seems a bit braindamaged here, with the
> encoding specification being *inside* the XML itself,
> rather than being something specified externally. It's
> a bit like a self-opening letter that works by having
> a letter opener sealed inside the envelope. You can
> open it, but you have to open it first...

All of the popular XML parsers have self-bootstrapping code that handles 
detection of the encoding, including auto-detection when no encoding is 
specified.

So basically - don't worry about it, it's taken care of.

-- Talin