[Python-3000] pyexpat: returns_unicode str/unicode branch

Sun Jul 22 06:35:14 CEST 2007

On 7/21/07, Fred L. Drake, Jr. <fdrake at acm.org> wrote:
> On Saturday 21 July 2007, Joe Gregorio wrote:
> > Should xml.parsers.expat.XMLParser.ParseFile(file) operate on
> > both text and binary streams?
>> No. XML is a serialization of a markup language containing Unicode character
> into an encoded stream.

Along the same lines, since all strings are now unicode,
should "returns_unicode" be dropped from xmlparser objects?
That is, the handler functions will always be passed unicode
strings and not utf-8 bytes.
 Thanks,
 -joe
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