elementtree w/utf8

[Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch]

On Thu, 25 Oct 2007 17:15:36 -0400, Tim Arnold wrote:

> Hi, I'm getting the by-now-familiar error:
> return codecs.charmap_decode(input,errors,decoding_map)
> UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xa9' in position 
> 4615: ordinal not in range(128)
> 
> the html file I'm working with is in utf-8, I open it with codecs, try to 
> feed it to TidyHTMLTreeBuilder, but no luck. Here's my code:
> from elementtree import ElementTree as ET
> from elementtidy import TidyHTMLTreeBuilder
> 
>             fd = codecs.open(htmfile,encoding='utf-8')
>             tidyTree = 
> TidyHTMLTreeBuilder.TidyHTMLTreeBuilder(encoding='utf-8')
>             tidyTree.feed(fd.read())
>             self.tree = tidyTree.close()
>             fd.close()
> 
> what am I doing wrong? Thanks in advance.

You feed decoded data to `TidyHTMLTreeBuilder`.  As the `encoding`
argument suggests this class wants bytes not unicode.  Decoding twice
doesn't work.

Ciao,
	Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch