[Python-3000] str/unicode tests: pyexpat.c and read(n) (original) (raw)

Fred L. Drake, Jr. fdrake at acm.org
Sat Jul 21 19:36:59 CEST 2007

On Saturday 21 July 2007, James Y Knight wrote:

Well...there's many reasons why it is useful to be able to parse an already-decoded unicode stream into XML, and to serialize XML into a unicode string. For example, if combining into a larger unicode document, or parsing from a literal string in the source code.

Yes, but that doesn't mean it's the XML parser's job to take multiple input types. It could easily be supported by creating a wrapper object that converts unicode to bytes objects, so the underlying C parser still gets bytes. Such a wrapper could easily be part of xml.parsers.expat if desired, but I'd like to avoid adding lots of stuff to the pyexpat C code.

Avoiding complexifying the C code is a good thing. ;-)

-Fred

-- Fred L. Drake, Jr.

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