Py 2.5: Bug in sgmllib

Fredrik Lundh fredrik at pythonware.com
Sun Oct 22 07:47:22 EDT 2006


Michael Butscher wrote:


> if I execute the following two lines in Python 2.5 (to feed in a 
> *unicode* string):
> 
> import sgmllib
> sgmllib.SGMLParser().feed(u'<a title="teßt"></a>')

source documents are encoded byte streams, not decoded Unicode 
sequences.  I suggest reading up on how Python's Unicode string
type is, and what a Unicode string represents.  it's not the same
thing as a byte string.

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