[XML-SIG] Preparing for PyXML 0.8

[Uche Ogbuji]

> 
> Uche Ogbuji writes:
>  > This is a compatability bug.  Most of us don't see this because
>  > we're using the PyXML version of pyexpat.
>  > 
>  > This new intern keyword arg for ParserCreate isn't even in the
>  > Python 2.2. release, so I think it should be removed, or that some
>  > better checking is done for it.
> 
> But don't we always build our own version of pyexpat now?

Apparently not in Debian.  Perhaps this is actually a bug in the Debian 
packaging.  Perhaps Jerome was extra clever and decided to disable compiling 
pyexpat in since Python has its own?  Alexandre?  Any ideas?


>  > I hesitate to hacka at the problem, though, without having an idea
>  > what was in mind when the arg was added.
> 
> Efficiency.

Smart alec  :-)

I was thinking more along the lines of what you said above: the person who 
made the change (you, I suppose) assumed PyXML always builds its own pyexpat.


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