ElementTree and unicode

Question

I have this char in an xml file:

  
      fumè
  

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Answer 1

Might you have stumbled upon this problem while using Requests (HTTP for Humans), response.text decodes the response by default, you can use response.content to get the undecoded data, so ElementTree can decode it itself. Just remember to use the correct encoding.

More info: http://docs.python-requests.org/en/latest/user/quickstart/#response-content