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Message 100350 - Python tracker

With ET 1.3, the serializer ElementTree.write() should output bytes only. And the default encoding is still US-ASCII.

The new behaviour is specific to the 3.x branch (since 3.0, r56841).
Even if it is not fully backward compatible, I don't find this behavior shocking: it is a rule of Python 3 to avoid implicit encoding/decoding.