[issue8194] Incompatible API change in xmlrpclib.Transport.parse_response() of Python 2.7 and 3.2

[STINNER Victor]

STINNER Victor <victor.stinner at haypocalc.com> added the comment:

In Python 2.6/3.1, xmlrpclib.Transport.parse_response() accepts a file like object. But Python 2.7/3.2 requires a HTTPResponse object because parse_response() calls response.getheader() method.

The patch moves the call to .getheader() in single_request() to accept a file-like object in parse_response(). But I don't understand why the gzip support is implemented in xmlrpclib instead of httplib.

The problem is related to M2Crypto which pass a BIO object (file-like object, without .getresponse() method).

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nosy: +haypo
title: broken API in xmlrpclib.Transport -> Incompatible API change in xmlrpclib.Transport.parse_response() of Python 2.7 and 3.2
versions: +Python 2.7, Python 3.2 -Python 3.3

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