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authorVictor Stinner <victor.stinner@haypocalc.com>2011-06-30 18:10:14 +0200
committerVictor Stinner <victor.stinner@haypocalc.com>2011-06-30 18:10:14 +0200
commiteaf399e3355e6d62b1bb5810b66ad4ff431ece57 (patch)
treeb4a5f31f3e966db6fbeb463777956e547aa04545
parent12b8d14991d54deedac7d7ca51c7f95006e6a7bc (diff)
downloadcpython-git-eaf399e3355e6d62b1bb5810b66ad4ff431ece57.tar.gz
Issue #12451: The XInclude default loader of xml.etree now decodes files from
UTF-8 instead of the locale encoding if the encoding is not specified. It now also opens XML files for the parser in binary mode instead of the text mode to avoid encoding issues.
-rw-r--r--Lib/xml/etree/ElementInclude.py9
-rw-r--r--Misc/NEWS5
2 files changed, 10 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/Lib/xml/etree/ElementInclude.py b/Lib/xml/etree/ElementInclude.py
index 84fd7548b2..6cc1b44e95 100644
--- a/Lib/xml/etree/ElementInclude.py
+++ b/Lib/xml/etree/ElementInclude.py
@@ -67,7 +67,7 @@ class FatalIncludeError(SyntaxError):
#
# @param href Resource reference.
# @param parse Parse mode. Either "xml" or "text".
-# @param encoding Optional text encoding.
+# @param encoding Optional text encoding (UTF-8 by default for "text").
# @return The expanded resource. If the parse mode is "xml", this
# is an ElementTree instance. If the parse mode is "text", this
# is a Unicode string. If the loader fails, it can return None
@@ -75,13 +75,14 @@ class FatalIncludeError(SyntaxError):
# @throws IOError If the loader fails to load the resource.
def default_loader(href, parse, encoding=None):
- file = open(href)
if parse == "xml":
+ file = open(href, 'rb')
data = ElementTree.parse(file).getroot()
else:
+ if not encoding:
+ encoding = 'UTF-8'
+ file = open(href, 'r', encoding=encoding)
data = file.read()
- if encoding:
- data = data.decode(encoding)
file.close()
return data
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index e6c1293fa3..5fa463a270 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -25,6 +25,11 @@ Core and Builtins
Library
-------
+- Issue #12451: The XInclude default loader of xml.etree now decodes files from
+ UTF-8 instead of the locale encoding if the encoding is not specified. It now
+ also opens XML files for the parser in binary mode instead of the text mode
+ to avoid encoding issues.
+
- Issue #12451: doctest.debug_script() doesn't create a temporary file
anymore to avoid encoding issues.