[docs] [issue10942] xml.etree.ElementTree.tostring returns type bytes, expected type str

Gunnar Eikman <gunnar.eikman@gmail.com> added the comment: I moved a working script from Ubuntu (Python 3.1.2) to Windows (Python 3.2.3) today. Had to revise script. The tostring method returns a string on Linux (contradicts this issue), but bytes on Windows (as described in this issue)... I used tostring with a single argument "tostring(theXml)" Is there an explanation for this? I am not an advanced Python hacker... Be careful when moving from one environment to another! ---------- nosy: +Gunnar.Eikman _______________________________________ Python tracker <report@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue10942> _______________________________________