Message 91482 - Python tracker

Message91482

Author	cms103
Recipients	cms103
Date	2009-08-11.19:19:51
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Message-id	<1250018393.94.0.435666063731.issue6686@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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The documentation for the xml.sax.handler.property_xml_string SAX property states that it should be "data type: String". However when retrieving this value in Python 3.1 it returns a bytes object instead. This makes handling the returned value very difficult because there is no method for retrieving the character set encoding that the XML was originally encoded with. This is currently blocking the port of SimpleTAL to Python 3 achieving feature parity with Python 2.

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The documentation for the xml.sax.handler.property_xml_string SAX
property states that it should be "data type: String".  However when
retrieving this value in Python 3.1 it returns a bytes object instead.

This makes handling the returned value very difficult because there is
no method for retrieving the character set encoding that the XML was
originally encoded with.

This is currently blocking the port of SimpleTAL to Python 3 achieving
feature parity with Python 2.

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Date	User	Action	Args
2009-08-11 19:19:54	cms103	set	recipients: + cms103
2009-08-11 19:19:53	cms103	set	messageid: <1250018393.94.0.435666063731.issue6686@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
2009-08-11 19:19:52	cms103	link	issue6686 messages
2009-08-11 19:19:52	cms103	create