pyexpat and unicode

[mallum]

Hi all;

I may be doing something stupid here and missing the obvious, but if I
run the following;

...snip...

import xml.parsers.expat
parser = xml.parsers.expat.ParserCreate(encoding='utf8')

data_uni = u"<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8' ?><hello>\202</hello>"
data     = "<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8' ?><hello>there</hello>"

data_uni.encode('utf8')

parser.Parse(data)
parser.Parse(data_uni)

......

expat barfs with ;

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "./testuni.py", line 12, in ?
    parser.Parse(data_uni)
UnicodeError: ASCII encoding error: ordinal not in range(128)

Does this mean Im unable to pass utf8 encoded strings to pyexpat ?
According to the docs it should. Can anyone spread some light on this.

  -- mallum