Problem with UnicodeError and xml.dom.minidom

[Paul Prescod]

Gustaf Liljegren wrote:
> 
>...
> 
> Hope this is enough info for someone to solve it. Otherwise, I'd gladly
> share the complete code if you need. But it may be too much for a
> newsgroup.

The easiest thing is to do the comparison as 8-bit strings rather than
Unicode strings:

if string.find(m.get('from'), e.encode("Latin-1")): 

or both as Unicode strings:

if string.find(unicode(m.get('from'), "Latin-1"), e):

Some of us have fought a losing war to make Python do that for you
automatically but the opposition is fierce, well organized and well
funded. ;)

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