Issue #12451: xml.dom.pulldom: parse() now opens files in binary mode instead

of the text mode (using the locale encoding) to avoid encoding issues.

Lib/xml/dom/pulldom.py

@@ -326,7 +326,7 @@ def parse(stream_or_string, parser=None, bufsize=None):
     if bufsize is None:
         bufsize = default_bufsize
     if isinstance(stream_or_string, str):
-        stream = open(stream_or_string)
+        stream = open(stream_or_string, 'rb')
     else:
         stream = stream_or_string
     if not parser:

Misc/NEWS

@@ -19,6 +19,9 @@ Core and Builtins
 Library
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+- Issue #12451: xml.dom.pulldom: parse() now opens files in binary mode instead
+  of the text mode (using the locale encoding) to avoid encoding issues.
+
 C-API
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