python如何rfind特殊字符,如何在Python BeautifulSoup中找到带有特殊字符的xml标记

I am using Python BeautifulSoup version 3.

my xml looks something like this (its from docx format):-

Mandatory / Optional

I wanted to extract out the content from tag 'w:t', and so this is what i did:-

print soup.findAll('w:t')

This is the error message that i got:-

print soup.findAll('w:t')

UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\u201c' in position 43: ordinal not in range(128)

解决方案

the beautiful object must be defined as follow :

BeautifulSoup(markup, "lxml-xml")

or

BeautifulSoup(markup, "xml")