sax barfs on unicode filenames

["Martin v. Löwis"]

Fredrik Lundh schrieb:
> Diez B. Roggisch wrote:
> 
>> Filenames are expected to be bytestrings. So what happens is that the
>> unicode string you pass as filename gets implicitly converted using the
>> default encoding.
> 
> it is ?

Yes. While you can pass Unicode strings as file names to many Python
functions, you can't pass them to Expat, as Expat requires the file name
as a byte string. Hence the error.

Regards,
Martin

P.S. and just to anticipate nit-picking: yes, you can pass a Unicode
string to Expat, too, as long as the Unicode string only contains
ASCII characters. And yes, it doesn't have to be ASCII, if you change
the system default encoding.