Support international character sets about gdata-python-client HOT 11 CLOSED

This can be solved using <string>.encode('UTF-8'). Perhaps this should be added 
to
the XML parsing, I'll have to think about it.

I've added encode() calls to strings when they are converted from XML elements 
to
members in revision 230.

Hi, api.jscudder:
I am trying the "Hello World" example in the article 'Getting Started with the 
Google
Data Python Library ', this issue is still feezing me when i execute the 
statement
'documents_feed = client.GetDocumentListFeed()'. Could you investigate that 
please?

Could you try revision 273? I just checked in a change which I think should fix 
this.
Here is the diff for src/atom/__init__.py if you would rather apply a patch:

Index: __init__.py
===================================================================
--- __init__.py (revision 262)
+++ __init__.py (working copy)
@@ -44,7 +44,6 @@

 __author__ = 'api.jscudder (Jeffrey Scudder)'

-
 try:
   from xml.etree import cElementTree as ElementTree
 except ImportError:
@@ -90,7 +89,7 @@
   if string_encoding:
     tree = ElementTree.fromstring(xml_string.encode(string_encoding))
   else:
-    if XML_STRING_ENCODING:
+    if XML_STRING_ENCODING and isinstance(xml_string, unicode):
       tree = ElementTree.fromstring(xml_string.encode(XML_STRING_ENCODING))
     else:
       tree = ElementTree.fromstring(xml_string)

Thanks for your work! The 'UnicodeEncodeError' has gone! 
While the returned results are garbled code when i 'print 
document_entry.title.text'. There are some docs in Chinese of my google docs, 
you 
know.

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I researched the problem today and changed the following codes to solve it:
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gdata/service.py
line 486: result_body = server_response.read().decode('utf-8')

atom/__init__.py
def CreateClassFromXMLString(target_class, xml_string):
  tree = ElementTree.fromstring(xml_string)
  return _CreateClassFromElementTree(target_class, tree)

def _HarvestElementTree(self, tree):
  for child in tree:
    self._ConvertElementTreeToMember(child)
  for attribute, value in tree.attrib.iteritems():
    self._ConvertElementAttributeToMember(attribute, value)
  if tree.text:
    self.text = tree.text

def _ConvertElementAttributeToMember(self, attribute, value):
  if value:
    self.extension_attributes[attribute] = value
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I modify the sources just to meet my purpose, hoping for some help to you.