xml.parsers.expat and utf-8

[dagurp]

I have this code:

import xml.parsers.expat
parser = xml.parsers.expat.ParserCreate(encoding="UTF-8")
text = unicode("<div>þórður</div>",'UTF-8')
print parser.Parse(text,1)

And this is what I get:
UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode characters in position
5-6: ordinal not in range(128)


I think I've tried all variations possible but I always get errors.
Anyone know what I'm doing wrong?

 

[=?ISO-8859-1?Q?=22Martin_v=2E_L=F6wis=22?=]

I think I've tried all variations possible but I always get errors.
Anyone know what I'm doing wrong?

You are passing Unicode strings to Parse. Try byte strings instead.

Regards,
Martin

 

[Kent Johnson]

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