I wrote a python script called xml_utils.py which parses xml using minidom.
It works when it's run on its own, but when I try to import it and run it inside a mod_python handler, I get this error: File "../common/xml_utils.py", line 80, in parse_item_attribute File "/usr/lib/python2.5/xml/dom/minidom.py", line 1924, in parseString from xml.dom import expatbuilder SystemError: Parent module 'xml.dom' not loaded Basically, it's the same problem I found in this post: http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2007-January/424018.html This site (http://www.dscpl.com.au/wiki/ModPython/Articles/ ExpatCausingApacheCrash) goes through a detailed explanation, and I found that the version of pyexpat is newer than libexpat: # ldd /usr/local/apache2/bin/httpd | grep expat libexpat.so.0 => /usr/local/apache2/lib/libexpat.so.0 (0xb7f71000) # strings /usr/local/apache2/lib/libexpat.so.0 | grep expat_ expat_1.95.2 $ python Python 2.5.2 (r252:60911, Jan 4 2009, 17:40:26) [GCC 4.3.2] on linux2 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> import pyexpat >>> pyexpat.version_info (2, 0, 0) But this is where I'm stuck: the article suggests recompiling apache with the newer version of expat. Apache's configure utility (I'm using httpd version 2.2.11) doesn't explicitly describe an expat library option. Also, if libexpat is version 1.95.2, wouldn't I have to get version 2.0 to be compatible with pyexpat? If anyone has any advice or suggestions, I'd appreciate hearing them. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list