xml.dom.minidom.parseString() doesn't accept Unicode.
Dale Strickland-Clark
dale at riverhall.NOTHANKS.co.uk
Sat Oct 27 12:55:31 EDT 2001
Given that XML is very Unicode friendly, this seems a rather odd
limitation.
>>> import xml.dom.minidom
>>> dom = xml.dom.minidom.parseString(u'<node/>')
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<interactive input>", line 1, in ?
File "c:\python21\lib\xml\dom\minidom.py", line 915, in parseString
return _doparse(pulldom.parseString, args, kwargs)
File "c:\python21\lib\xml\dom\minidom.py", line 901, in _doparse
events = apply(func, args, kwargs)
File "c:\python21\lib\xml\dom\pulldom.py", line 299, in parseString
buf = StringIO(string)
TypeError: expected string, unicode found
>>>
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Dale Strickland-Clark
Riverhall Systems Ltd
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