Fix the test_minidom failure.

gvanrossum · gvanrossum · commit 55b15c9f059b · 2007-08-07T23:03:33.000Z
We just need to force the encoding when no encoding is passed to toxml()
or toprettyxml(), rather than relying on the default encoding (which is
unreliable).
diff --git a/Lib/xml/dom/minidom.py b/Lib/xml/dom/minidom.py
@@ -48,7 +48,8 @@ def toxml(self, encoding = None):
     def toprettyxml(self, indent="\t", newl="\n", encoding=None):
         # indent = the indentation string to prepend, per level
         # newl = the newline string to append
-        writer = io.StringIO(encoding=encoding)
+        use_encoding = "utf-8" if encoding is None else encoding
+        writer = io.StringIO(encoding=use_encoding)
         if self.nodeType == Node.DOCUMENT_NODE:
             # Can pass encoding only to document, to put it into XML header
             self.writexml(writer, "", indent, newl, encoding)
