Arch Linux

Description:
With python 2.6, trying to "import _xmlplus.xpath" gives the
following error:

>>> import _xmlplus.xpath
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/_xmlplus/xpath/__init__.py", line 57, in <module>
import MessageSource
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/_xmlplus/xpath/MessageSource.py", line 1, in <module>
from xml.xpath import RuntimeException, CompiletimeException
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/_xmlplus/xpath/__init__.py", line 112, in <module>
from pyxpath import ExprParserFactory
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/_xmlplus/xpath/pyxpath.py", line 59, in <module>
from xml.xpath.ParsedAbbreviatedRelativeLocationPath import ParsedAbbreviatedRelativeLocationPath
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/_xmlplus/xpath/ParsedAbbreviatedRelativeLocationPath.py", line 31
as = ParsedAxisSpecifier.ParsedAxisSpecifier('descendant-or-self')
^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax

Additional info:
* pyxml 0.8.4-5

The problem can be fixed by replacing the 'as' variable which
is reserved in python 2.6 with something else throughout the module.

This should be an upstream bug but given that the last released
version of pyxml was in 2004, I doubt whether there is any development
activity now. This bug also causes packages depending on pyxml like
serpentine to fail.