Issue #10590: xml.sax.parseString() now supports string argument.

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/Lib/xml/sax/__init__.py b/Lib/xml/sax/__init__.py
index b161b1f..ef67ae6 100644
--- a/Lib/xml/sax/__init__.py
+++ b/Lib/xml/sax/__init__.py
@@ -33,8 +33,7 @@ def parse(source, handler, errorHandler=ErrorHandler()):
     parser.parse(source)
 
 def parseString(string, handler, errorHandler=ErrorHandler()):
-    from io import BytesIO
-
+    import io
     if errorHandler is None:
         errorHandler = ErrorHandler()
     parser = make_parser()
@@ -42,7 +41,10 @@ def parseString(string, handler, errorHandler=ErrorHandler()):
     parser.setErrorHandler(errorHandler)
 
     inpsrc = InputSource()
-    inpsrc.setByteStream(BytesIO(string))
+    if isinstance(string, str):
+        inpsrc.setCharacterStream(io.StringIO(string))
+    else:
+        inpsrc.setByteStream(io.BytesIO(string))
     parser.parse(inpsrc)
 
 # this is the parser list used by the make_parser function if no