Any reason why cStringIO in 2.5 behaves different from 2.4?

[Stefan Scholl]

Stefan Behnel <stefan.behnel-n05pAM at web.de> wrote:
> Stefan Scholl wrote:
>> Stefan Behnel <stefan.behnel-n05pAM at web.de> wrote:
>>> Stefan Scholl wrote:
>>>> Well, http://docs.python.org/lib/module-xml.sax.html is missing
>>>> the fact, that I can't use Unicode with parseString().
>>>>
>>>> This parseString() uses cStringIO.
>>> Well, Python unicode is not a valid *byte* encoding for XML.
>>>
>>> lxml.etree can parse unicode, if you really want, but otherwise, you should
>>> maybe stick to well-formed XML.
>> 
>> The XML is well-formed. Works perfect in Python 2.4 with Python
>> unicode and Python sax parser.
> 
> The XML is *not* well-formed if you pass Python unicode instead of a byte
> encoded string. Read the XML spec.
> 
> It would be well-formed if you added the proper XML declaration, but that is
> system specific (UCS-4 or UTF-16, BE or LE). So don't even try.

Who cares? I'm not calling any external tools.

Python should know its own strings.