[Pythonmac-SIG] XML with OS X.2 cmd-line python

[David Eppstein]

What is the simplest method of getting an XML parser working under the 
OS X.2 command-line Python?  It looks like either xml.parsers.expat or 
xml.sax will meet my needs, but neither seems to work out of the box -- 
expat claims that pyexpat is missing (which from a little googling seems 
to mean that the expat lib couldn't be found when Apple built their 
Python version) and sax claims it doesn't have any parsers (for same 
reason?).

The answer I'm hoping for would be something like "download this, run 
that install script, and it will put files in 
/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/some-directory/".  I can handle more 
complex install procedures but answers involving files placed elsewhere 
than site-packages are problematic from the point of view of getting a 
standalone app running under pyobjc.

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David Eppstein       UC Irvine Dept. of Information & Computer Science
eppstein@ics.uci.edu http://www.ics.uci.edu/~eppstein/