# Universal Feed Parser

Parse RSS and Atom feeds in Python. 3000 unit tests. Open source.

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## encoding

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The character encoding that was used to parse the feed.

The process by which Universal Feed Parser determines the character encoding of the feed is explained in Character Encoding Detection.

This element always exists, although it may be an empty string if the character encoding can not be determined.

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