BeautifulSoup does not parse xml with other encoding than utf-8

Question

I can read all xmls files that starts with but I can not read the files starts with

Answer 1

I have the exact same problem. My workaround is to not read the xml declaration:

with open('tests/xml-iso.xml', 'r', encoding='iso-8859-1') as f_in:
    f_in.readline()  # skipping header and letting soup create its own header
    xml_soup = Soup(f_in.read(), 'xml', from_encoding='ISO-8859-1')

Answer 2

Coincidentally I stumbled upon another workaround. Read the file in binary mode ('rb'):

with open('tests/xml-iso.xml', 'rb') as f_in:
    xml_soup = Soup(f_in.read(), 'xml')