minidom and unicode errors

[Abhimanyu Seth]

On 3/7/06, Fredrik Lundh <fredrik at pythonware.com> wrote:
>
> Abhimanyu Seth wrote:
>
> > Sorry, my mistake. The file was not saved as utf-8. Saving it as utf-8
> > solves my problems.
> > >> f = codecs.open ("c:/test.txt", "r", "utf-8")
> > >> dom = minidom.parseString (codecs.encode (f.read(), "utf-8"))
> >
> > However, I still need to encode the string returned by f.read () before
> > passing it to parseString. Otherwise I get an exception.
>
> if the file contains UTF-8 data,
>
>     dom = minidom.parse("c:/test.txt")
>
> should be exactly equivalent to your recoding solution.  if it isn't, post
> a
> copy of the sample file.
>
> (if you've double-checked, and are 100% certain that it's not your editor
> or your environment that's playing tricks with you, you can also report
> this
> over here:
>
>     http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=5470&atid=105470
>
> )
>
> </F>
>
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Hey thanks! yup, minidom.parse() works just fine.

But for writexml(), I still need to use codecs.open("c:/test.txt", "w",
"utf-8"). Is this a bug in writexml() ?

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Regards,
Abhimanyu
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