title: Error trying parsing xml using python : xml.etree.ElementTree.ParseError: syntax error: line 1,
body: <p>In python, simply trying to parse XML: </p>
  
  <pre><code>import xml.etree.ElementTree as ET
  data = 'info.xml'
  tree = ET.fromstring(data)
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>but got error:</p>
  
  <pre><code>Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\mesh\try1.py", line 3, in &lt;module&gt;
  tree = ET.fromstring(data)
  File "C:\Python27\lib\xml\etree\ElementTree.py", line 1312, in XML
  return parser.close()
  File "C:\Python27\lib\xml\etree\ElementTree.py", line 1665, in close
  self._raiseerror(v)
  File "C:\Python27\lib\xml\etree\ElementTree.py", line 1517, in _raiseerror
  raise err
  xml.etree.ElementTree.ParseError: syntax error: line 1, column 0
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>thats a bit of xml, i have:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-16"?&gt;
  &lt;AnalysisData xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"&gt;
  &lt;BlendOperations OperationNumber="1"&gt;
   &lt;ComponentQuality&gt;
    &lt;MaterialName&gt;Oil&lt;/MaterialName&gt;
    &lt;Weight&gt;1067.843017578125&lt;/Weight&gt;
    &lt;WeightPercent&gt;31.545017776585109&lt;/WeightPercent&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Why is it happening?</p>