[XML-SIG] Using PyExpat.py

Martin v. Loewis martin@loewis.home.cs.tu-berlin.de
Sat, 17 Feb 2001 18:16:00 +0100


> So my environment is fine. PyExpat.py does not import pyexpat, but I do
> in my calling test script:
> 
>   from xml.parsers import pyexpat
>   from xml.dom.ext.reader import PyExpat

That does not matter. An import is always local to the module, so if
you import it into __main__, it still won't be in PyExpat - so there
is a clear bug in PyExpat.

> Note that I've downloaded PyXML-0.6.3 from Sourceforge (haven't
> installed it yet) and PyExpat.py in *that* version does not import
> pyexpat either. So if you are not able to duplicate the problem with
> that version, it must be something deeper...

Sorry for the confusion. I had some 4Suite release installed, not
PyXML 0.6.3, which indeed has this bug.

Regards,
Martin