Newbie question: Unicode hiccup on reading file i just wrote

[Darcy]

Fredrik Lundh wrote:
> Diez B. Roggisch wrote:
>>Just don't do any fancy encoding stuff at all, a simple
>>    rrr=xml.dom.minidom.parseString(open("tt.xml").read())
>>should do.
> or
>     rrr = xml.dom.minidom.parse("tt.xml")

thanks a lot guys -- both approaches work a treat.

in particular: diez, thanks for explaining what was going on from 
python's perspective