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

More simple than answers above:

from lxml import etree

#Do request for data, response = r#
data = etree.fromstring(bytes(r.text, encoding='utf-8'))