use response.content

sickle/response.py

@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ def raw(self):
     @property
     def xml(self):
         """The server's response as parsed XML."""
-        return etree.XML(self.http_response.text.encode("utf8"),
+        return etree.XML(self.http_response.content,
                          parser=XMLParser)
 
     def __repr__(self):

sickle/tests/test_harvesting.py

@@ -30,6 +30,7 @@ def __init__(self, text):
         # request's response object carry an attribute 'text' which contains
         # the server's response data encoded as unicode.
         self.text = text
+        self.content = text.encode('utf-8')
 
 
 def mock_harvest(*args, **kwargs):

sickle/tests/test_sickle.py

@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ def test_invalid_iterator(self):
         Sickle("http://localhost", iterator=None)
 
     def test_pass_request_args(self):
-        mock_response = Mock(text='<xml/>')
+        mock_response = Mock(text=u'<xml/>', content='<xml/>')
         mock_get = Mock(return_value=mock_response)
         with patch('sickle.app.requests.get', mock_get):
             sickle = Sickle('url', timeout=10, proxies=dict(),
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ def test_pass_request_args(self):
                                              auth=('user', 'password'))
 
     def test_override_encoding(self):
-        mock_response = Mock(text='<xml/>')
+        mock_response = Mock(text='<xml/>', content='<xml/>')
         mock_get = Mock(return_value=mock_response)
         with patch('sickle.app.requests.get', mock_get):
             sickle = Sickle('url', encoding='encoding')