[lxml-dev] Re: Python unicode string support in lxml

Steve Howe wrote:

Whatever the calling method gets named, its a great feature, thanks.

so what's your use case? (I hope you're aware that the XML file format is defined in terms of en- coded data, not as sequences of Unicode code points, and that XML encoding involves more than just character sets; there's no such thing as an "XML document in a Unicode string") stefan's argument is basically "we should add it because we can", which is a rather lousy way to design software. </F>