if sys.version_info[0] >= 3:
compat_etree_fromstring = xml.etree.ElementTree.fromstring
else:
- # on python 2.x the the attributes of a node aren't always unicode objects
+ # python 2.x tries to encode unicode strings with ascii (see the
+ # XMLParser._fixtext method)
etree = xml.etree.ElementTree
+ try:
+ _etree_iter = etree.Element.iter
+ except AttributeError: # Python <=2.6
+ def _etree_iter(root):
+ for el in root.findall('*'):
+ yield el
+ for sub in _etree_iter(el):
+ yield sub
+
# on 2.6 XML doesn't have a parser argument, function copied from CPython
# 2.7 source
def _XML(text, parser=None):
return el
def compat_etree_fromstring(text):
- return _XML(text, parser=etree.XMLParser(target=etree.TreeBuilder(element_factory=_element_factory)))
+ doc = _XML(text, parser=etree.XMLParser(target=etree.TreeBuilder(element_factory=_element_factory)))
+ for el in _etree_iter(doc):
+ if el.text is not None and isinstance(el.text, bytes):
+ el.text = el.text.decode('utf-8')
+ return doc
try:
from urllib.parse import parse_qs as compat_parse_qs