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I am creating XML file in Python and there's a field on my XML that I put the contents of a text file. I do it by f = open ('myText.txt',"r") data = f.read() f.close() root = ET.Element("add") doc = ET.SubElement(root, "doc") field = ET.SubElement(doc, "field") field.set("name", "text") field.text = data tree = ET.ElementTree(root) tree.write("output.xml") And then I get the UnicodeDecodeError . I already tried to put the special comment # -*- coding: utf-8 -*- on top of my script but still got the error. Also I tried already to enforce the encoding of my variable data.encode('utf-8') but still got the error. I know this issue is very common but all the solutions I got from other questions didn't work for me. UPDATE Traceback: Using only the special comment on the first line of the script Traceback (most recent call last): File "D:\Python\lse\createxml.py", line 151, in <module> tree.write("D:\\python\\lse\\xmls\\" + items[ctr][0] + ".xml") File "C:\Python27\lib\xml\etree\ElementTree.py", line 820, in write serialize(write, self._root, encoding, qnames, namespaces) File "C:\Python27\lib\xml\etree\ElementTree.py", line 939, in _serialize_xml _serialize_xml(write, e, encoding, qnames, None) File "C:\Python27\lib\xml\etree\ElementTree.py", line 939, in _serialize_xml _serialize_xml(write, e, encoding, qnames, None) File "C:\Python27\lib\xml\etree\ElementTree.py", line 937, in _serialize_xml write(_escape_cdata(text, encoding)) File "C:\Python27\lib\xml\etree\ElementTree.py", line 1073, in _escape_cdata return text.encode(encoding, "xmlcharrefreplace") UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc2 in position 243: ordina l not in range(128) Traceback: Using .encode('utf-8') Traceback (most recent call last): File "D:\Python\lse\createxml.py", li

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