Python, XmlrpcLib, ExpatParser and Encodings

I had to deal with an XMLRPC server that returned data in ‘iso-8859-1′ encoded, but didn’t have the encoding wired into the XML declaration. After some digging around, this hardcoded changes fixed the problem.

    class ExpatParser:
        # fast expat parser for Python 2.0 and later.  this is about
        # 50% slower than sgmlop, on roundtrip testing
        def __init__(self, target):
            src_encoding = 'iso-8859-1'
            self._parser = parser = expat.ParserCreate(src_encoding, None)

Hope it’s useful to you.