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I am reading from xml files into Python with the code:

import xml.etree.ElementTree as ET
tree = ET.parse(file_name)

For some reason the source i am reading from appears to have the incorrect encoding specified in the file (it is correct for 10 years of the data that I am reading from, and then suddenly i get problems for subsequent files).

Specifically i get the following error raised:

xml.etree.ElementTree.ParseError: encoding specified in XML declaration is incorrect: line 1, column 30

I think the data is encoding in UTF-8, however the encoding specified in the file is UTF-16 [the first line of the file is <?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-16'?>] - when i manually change the file text to say UTF-8 i do not get an error raised, and as far as i can tell, it appears to be reading everything correctly.

How do you override the xml reader so that it treats the encoding as UTF-8, and ignores what is specified within the file?

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