[Pythonmac-SIG] Re: SAX trepidations

[David Eppstein]

In article <CF565055-871B-11D7-B650-000A959DE278@mac.com>,
 Mel Walker <mwalker@mac.com> wrote:

> I'm trying to do xml work on a stock python 2.2 that came with 10.2.x. 
> As has been noted before in this list, I'm getting a 
> "SAXReaderNotAvailable: No parsers found" exception.
> 
> Is there any workaround for this? I would really like to be able to 
> just supply some scripts in a folder for what I need to do, and not 
> have to provide an installer (or, worse yet, a compiler to compile a 
> later version of python).

The workaround is to install the xmlplus package -- its installer places 
a folder within site-packages.   It is possible to package this stuff 
with your scripts, I think all you really need is pyexpat.so

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David Eppstein                      http://www.ics.uci.edu/~eppstein/
Univ. of California, Irvine, School of Information & Computer Science