[Python-3000] XML as bytes or unicode?

[Stefan Behnel]

Greg Ewing wrote:
> Stefan Behnel wrote:
> 
>> In the absence of information provided by an external transport
>> protocol (e.g.
>> HTTP or MIME), it is a fatal error for an entity including an encoding
>> declaration to be presented to the XML processor in an encoding other
>> than
>> that named in the declaration [...]
> 
> But if the XML has already been decoded and turned into
> a Python unicode string, there *is* external information
> about the encoding -- we know it's encoded however Python
> represents unicode internally. So this clause doesn't
> apply.

Correct. That's exactly what I was indicating.

Stefan