xml.parsers.expat and utf-8

[Kent Johnson]

dagurp at gmail.com wrote:
> I have this code:
> 
> import xml.parsers.expat
> parser = xml.parsers.expat.ParserCreate(encoding="UTF-8")
> text = unicode("<div>þórður</div>",'UTF-8')

I think you want
   text = u"<div>þórður</div>".encode('UTF-8')
so text is a UTF-8 string.

Kent