if sys.version_info[0] >= 3:
compat_etree_fromstring = xml.etree.ElementTree.fromstring
else:
- # on python 2.x the attributes and text of a node aren't always unicode
- # objects
+ # python 2.x tries to encode unicode strings with ascii (see the
+ # XMLParser._fixtext method)
etree = xml.etree.ElementTree
try: