Encoding error while parsing RSS with lxml?

You should probably only be trying to divine the character encoding as a last resort, since it's clear what the encoding is based on the XML prolog (if not by the HTTP headers.) Anyway, it's unnecessary to pass the encoding to etree. XMLParser unless you want to override the encoding; so get rid of the encoding parameter and it should work.

I ran into a similar problem, and it turns out this has NOTHING to do with encodings. What's happening is this - lxml is throwing you a totally unrelated error. In this case, the error is that the .

Parse function expects a filename or URL, and not a string with the contents itself. However, when it tries to print out the error, it chokes on non-ascii characters and shows that completely confusing error message. It is highly unfortunate and other people have commented on this issue here.

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