[pypy-issue] [issue965] xml.etree.ElementTree says 'unknown encoding' of a regular encoding

[Dongying Zhang]

New submission from Dongying Zhang <zhangdongying1986 at gmail.com>:

I've been trying to parse xml string using python, codes following:

    #-*- coding: utf-8 -*-
    import xml.etree.ElementTree as xmlet
    s = '<?xml version="1.0" encoding="GBK"?><info></info>'
    xmlet.fromstring(s)

Then:
    $ pypy test.py

Traceback message came out like this:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "app_main.py", line 51, in run_toplevel
  File "test.py", line 4, in <module>
    xmlet.fromstring(s)
  File "/usr/local/Cellar/pypy/1.7/lib-python/2.7/xml/etree/ElementTree.py", line 
1282, in XML
    parser.feed(text)
  File "/usr/local/Cellar/pypy/1.7/lib-python/2.7/xml/etree/ElementTree.py", line 
1624, in feed
    self._raiseerror(v)
  File "/usr/local/Cellar/pypy/1.7/lib-python/2.7/xml/etree/ElementTree.py", line 
1488, in _raiseerror
    raise err
ParseError: unknown encoding: line 1, column 30

Actually some versions of CPython have the same issue too.

I've seen this in following cases:
    Python2.5.6 on Mac OS X Lion
    Python2.6.5 on Ubuntu 10.04
    pypy1.7.0 on Mac OS X Lion

But not in these cases:
    Python2.6.7 on Mac OS X Lion
    Python2.7.1 on Mac OS X Lion

I've created an issue here: http://bugs.python.org/issue13612

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files: test.py
messages: 3581
nosy: dongying, pypy-issue
priority: bug
release: 1.7
status: unread
title: xml.etree.ElementTree says 'unknown encoding' of a regular encoding

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