XML Unicode strings with encoding declaration are not supported

Question

Trying to do the following...

from lxml import etree
from lxml.etree import fromstring

if request.POST:
    parser = etree.XMLParser(ns_clean=True, recover=         


        

Answer 1

The following solution from kernc worked for me:

from lxml import etree

xml = u''
xml = bytes(bytearray(xml, encoding='utf-8'))  # ADDENDUM OF THIS LINE (when unicode means utf-8, e.g. on Linux)
etree.XML(xml)

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