Fix XML responses to not throw errors for unicode characters

loganknecht · loganknecht · commit 9613e4384416 · 2018-06-07T10:55:44.000-07:00
diff --git a/splunklib/data.py b/splunklib/data.py
@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@
 """
 
 from __future__ import absolute_import
+import sys
 from xml.etree.ElementTree import XML
 from splunklib import six
 
@@ -77,8 +78,10 @@ def load(text, match=None):
         'names': {}
     }
 
-    if isinstance(text, unicode):
-        text = text.encode('utf-8')
+    # Convert to unicode encoding in only python 2 for xml parser
+    if sys.version_info < (3, 0, 0):
+        if isinstance(text, unicode):
+            text = text.encode('utf-8')
 
     root = XML(text)
     items = [root] if match is None else root.findall(match)
