New submission from Christoph Zwerschke <c...@online.de>: If you install sgmlop (downloadable from http://effbot.org/downloads/#sgmlop) under Python 2.x, then this can break xmlrpclib.
You can reproduce this problem as follows (I have tested with Py 2.4, 2.5 and 2.6): ------------ data = """<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <methodCall><methodName>f</methodName><params> <param><value>käse</value></param> </params></methodCall>""" import xmlrpclib assert xmlrpclib.FastParser is None print xmlrpclib.SgmlopParser and 'with' or 'without', 'sgmlop' assert xmlrpclib.loads(data) == ((u'k\xe4se',), 'f') ------------ If sgmlop is installed, this gives a UnicodeDecodeError, otherwise everything works well. This happens because xmlrpclib prefers using sgmlop over lib.parsers.expat, but fails to handle numeric character entities properly with this parser. Find attached a patch that fixes this problem. I also wonder whether lib.parsers.expat shouldn't be preferred over sgmlop, since the latter is somewhat outdated, and installing external libraries should not cause crashes or wrong behavior of standard lib modules (see also Issue1772916 for a similar problem). ---------- components: Library (Lib) messages: 78156 nosy: cito severity: normal status: open title: Installing sgmlop can crash xmlrpclib type: crash versions: Python 2.6 _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue4713> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
