1 files changed, 9 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/rest_framework/compat.py b/rest_framework/compat.py
index 8c64d951..0d512342 100644
--- a/rest_framework/compat.py
+++ b/rest_framework/compat.py
@@ -426,3 +426,12 @@ try:
     from xml.etree import ParseError as ETParseError
 except ImportError:  # python < 2.7
     ETParseError = None
+
+
+# XMLParser only takes an encoding arg from >= 2.7
+def ET_XMLParser(encoding=None):
+    from xml.etree import ElementTree as ET
+    try:
+        return ET.XMLParser(encoding=encoding)
+    except TypeError:
+        return ET.XMLParser()