Parseando XML sin Unicode

[Hernan Martinez Foffani]

> kmilo en linux:~> python
> Python 2.2 (#1, Mar 26 2002, 15:46:04)
> [GCC 2.95.3 20010315 (SuSE)] on linux2
> Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
> >>> p = 'España'
> >>> p = unicode(p,'latin-1')
> >>> print p
>
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
> UnicodeError: ASCII encoding error: ordinal not in range(128)
> >>>

??? ... que tienen configurado como decodificacion por defecto?