[Python-3000] XML as bytes or unicode?

[Benjamin Peterson]

On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 11:33 AM, Antoine Pitrou <solipsis at pitrou.net> wrote:
>
> I took a look at test_sax and it seems sax.parser expects all (XML) input as
> unicode rather than bytes. Apparently ElementTree does the same. Is there any
> rationale for this decision?

Well, unless the parser decodes explicitly, I believe this should be true.
>
> cheers
>
> Antoine.
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