[issue11033] ElementTree.fromstring doesn't work with Unicode

[Alexander Belopolsky]

Alexander Belopolsky <belopolsky at users.sourceforge.net> added the comment:

This works in 3.x:

Python 3.2rc2+ (py3k:88279:88280, Feb  1 2011, 00:01:52)
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>>> from xml.etree import ElementTree
>>> ElementTree.fromstring('<doc>诗</doc>')
<Element 'doc' at 0x1007daa00>

In 2.x you need to encode unicode strings before passing them to ElementTree.fromstring().  For example:

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# encoding: utf-8                                                                                                                                                      
from xml.etree import ElementTree
t = ElementTree.fromstring(u'<doc>诗</doc>'.encode('utf-8'))
print t.text
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This is not a bug because fromstring() unlike some other ElementTree methods is not documented to support unicode strings. Since 2.x is closed for new features, this has to be rejected.

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assignee:  -> belopolsky
nosy: +belopolsky
resolution:  -> rejected
stage:  -> committed/rejected
status: open -> pending
type: crash -> feature request
versions: +Python 2.7 -Python 2.6

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