Fixed: Decoding XML breaks ElementTree

The current version actually gives me an error: "UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode characters in position #-#: ordinal not in range(128)", since the XML I'm getting back has this information "<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>"

Removing the extraneous decode fixes things for me. Is there a better way to work around the implementations that get the encoding wrong?

See: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/12349728/elementtree-and-unicode