Terry J. Reedy added the comment: I disagree. The docs only sporadically mention specific exceptions for specific functions. UnicodeDecodeError can occur any place bytes are decoded to unicode. I think this should be closed. Builtin exceptions are documented in https://docs.python.org/3/library/exceptions.html. Module docs document additional exceptions defined in a module. ParseError is one such. https://docs.python.org/3/library/xml.etree.elementtree.html#exceptions. It is not specifically mentioned in the entry for fromstring or .feed. I also disagree that the decode error should be wrapped as a parse error. It happens before parsing in the data preparation step, and the UnicodeDecodeError message give 3 pieces of information specific to the problem. ---------- assignee: -> docs@python components: +Documentation nosy: +docs@python, terry.reedy status: open -> pending _______________________________________ Python tracker <report@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue29896> _______________________________________