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Python 3 issue

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Under Python 3.4.2 I get an error:

XML input:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<note>
  <to>Tove</to>
  <from>Jani</from>
  <heading>Reminder</heading>
  <body>Don't forget me this weekend!</body>
</note>

Python snippet:

with open(xml_file) as f:
    d = xmltodict.parse(f, xml_attribs=True)

Error message:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python3.4/site-packages/xmltodict.py", line 246, in parse
    parser.ParseFile(xml_input)
TypeError: read() did not return a bytes object (type=str)

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "./xml2json.py", line 27, in <module>
    print(convert(sys.argv[1]))
  File "./xml2json.py", line 17, in convert
    d = xmltodict.parse(f, xml_attribs=xml_attribs)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.4/site-packages/xmltodict.py", line 248, in parse
    parser.Parse(xml_input, True)
TypeError: '_io.TextIOWrapper' does not support the buffer interface

Under Python 2.7 this example works fine.

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Created 9 years ago
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jabbalacicommented, Dec 29, 2014

I found the solution: you need to open the XML input as binary:

with open(xml_file, "rb") as f:
    d = xmltodict.parse(f, xml_attribs=True)

Notice the “rb” mode instead of “r”.

0reactions

martinblechcommented, Jan 31, 2017

I didn’t make the parser, can’t say. Try asking in stackoverflow.com, someone out there might know.

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