need help with PyXML

[Mark Hahn]

Note:  I just found a thread from over a year ago where someone else
reported the same bug.  Can someone give me a hint on how to work around
this bug?

previous thread:  http://tinyurl.com/p8xj

"Mark Hahn" <mark at hahnca.com> wrote in message
news:p3oeb.4606$hp5.3567 at fed1read04...
> I am trying to parse HTML for the first time.  I first installed
> 4Suite-1.0a3.win32-py2.3.exe and then realized I didn't need it.  Then I
> installed PyXML-0.8.3.win32-py2.3.exe.  Now when I try to execute this as
> the first line of my module ...
>
> from xml.dom.ext.reader import Sax2
>
> ... I get this Exception ...
>
> Sequence index out of range: list index out of range
>
> Traceback (innermost last):
>
> File "<string>", line 1, in ?
>
> File "c:\codeshare\codeshare.py", line 4, in ?
>   from xml.dom.ext.reader import Sax2
> File "C:\Python23\Lib\site-packages\_xmlplus\dom\__init__.py", line 223,
in
> ?
>       from xml.dom.html import HTMLDOMImplementation
> File "C:\Python23\Lib\site-packages\_xmlplus\dom\html\__init__.py", line
> 445, in ?
>   g_numCharEntityPattern = re.compile('&#(\d+);')
> File "C:\Python23\Lib\sre.py", line 179, in compile
>       return _compile(pattern, flags)
> File "C:\Python23\Lib\sre.py", line 227, in _compile
>           p = sre_compile.compile(pattern, flags)
> File "C:\Python23\Lib\sre_compile.py", line 469, in compile
>       code = _code(p, flags)
> File "C:\Python23\Lib\sre_compile.py", line 453, in _code
>       _compile(code, p.data, flags)
> File "C:\Python23\Lib\sre_compile.py", line 88, in _compile
>               _compile(code, av[1], flags)
> File "C:\Python23\Lib\sre_compile.py", line 69, in _compile
>                   _compile(code, av[2], flags)
> File "C:\Python23\Lib\sre_compile.py", line 27, in _compile
>       for op, av in pattern:
> File "C:\Python23\Lib\sre_parse.py", line 138, in __getitem__
>           return self.data[index]
>
>