[issue40381] plistlib doesn't handle poorly-formatted plists

Change by Ronald Oussoren : -- stage: -> needs patch type: -> behavior ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailing list

[issue40381] plistlib doesn't handle poorly-formatted plists

Ronald Oussoren added the comment: IMHO this is a bug and plistlib should behave the same as Apple’s libraries here. -- ___ Python tracker ___

[issue40381] plistlib doesn't handle poorly-formatted plists

Change by Serhiy Storchaka : -- nosy: +ned.deily, ronaldoussoren ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailing list

[issue40381] plistlib doesn't handle poorly-formatted plists

Clay Caviness added the comment: I expect the answer here to be "plistlib is correct, that's a poorly formatted plist", but since plistlib is "for reading and writing the “property list” files used mainly by Mac OS X and supports both binary and XML plist files", and Apple's own tooling

[issue40381] plistlib doesn't handle poorly-formatted plists

New submission from Clay Caviness : Some Info.plist files are poorly formatted. I am using plistlib to read Info.plist file from various .app bundles. On some, plistlib.load raises a ValueError when trying to parse. Examining one of these Info.plist files, it turns out *it* is poorly