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I am trying to read an xml file with different encoding. In case of UTF-8 it is working fine but in case of other formats like GB18030 or BIG5, it is throwing error like multi-byte encoding are not supported.

Please suggest a solution for this. Thanks in advance.

Rahul K P
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Here a try is open as file object and with ElementTree.fromstring() :

import xml.etree.ElementTree as ET

with open('file_name.xml','r') as f:
   ef = ET.fromstring(f.read())

It was worked for me.

Or you can do is with XMLParser :

xmlp = ET.XMLParser(encoding="utf-8")
f = ET.parse('file_name.xml',parser=xmlp)
Vikas Periyadath
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