>>> a = array.array( 'B', b"""5\xe9</a><span>&middot;</span>\n\n\t\n        <a href="http://auto.mail.ru/commo
n/policy.html">\xd3\xf1\xeb\xee\xe2\xe8\xff \xe8\xf1\xef\xee\xeb\xfc\xe7\xe2
\xe0\xed\xe8\xff \xec\xe0\xf2\xe5\xf0\xe8\xe0\xeb\xee\xe2</a><span>&middot;</spa""")
>>> a.tostring().decode('cp1251')
'5й</a><span>&middot;</span>\n\n\t\n        <a href="http://auto.mail.ru/commo\nn/policy.html">Условия использв\nания материалов</a><span>&middot;</spa'

print( rhtml.decode('cp1251') )

headers = {
            'User-Agent' : 'Opera/9.80 (Windows NT 5.1; U; ru) Presto/2.6.30 Version/10.63',
            'Host' : 'auto.mail.ru',
            'Accept' : 'text/html, application/xml;q=0.9, application/xhtml+xml, image/png, image/jpeg, image/gif, image/x-xbitmap, */*;q=0.1',
            'Accept-Language' : 'ru-RU,ru;q=0.9,en;q=0.8',
            'Accept-Charset' : 'windows-1251, cp1251, *;q=0.1',
            'Accept-Encoding' : 'txt, *;q=0',
            'Connection' : 'Keep-Alive, TE',
            'TE' : 'deflate, gzip, chunked, identity, trailers'
            }

        opener = urllib.request.build_opener()
        req = urllib.request.Request(self.eturl, None, headers)
            
        try:
            page = opener.open(req);            
        except IOError as err:
            print('error: ', err)
        if page:
            rhtml = page.read()
        self.html = str(rhtml, 'cp1251')  #тут все обрывается