diff --git a/pytiled_parser/xml_parser.py b/pytiled_parser/xml_parser.py
index 243863c..b694a1f 100644
--- a/pytiled_parser/xml_parser.py
+++ b/pytiled_parser/xml_parser.py
@@ -145,13 +145,7 @@ def _parse_data(element: etree.Element, layer_width: int) -> objects.LayerData:
     Returns:
         LayerData: Data object containing layer data or chunks of data.
     """
-    try:
-        encoding = element.attrib["encoding"]
-    except KeyError as e:
-        print(
-            "The tmx_file must be encoding by csv,. base64, gzip-base64, or zlip-base64"
-        )
-        raise e
+    encoding = element.attrib["encoding"]
 
     compression = None
     try: