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Description:

xml parsing in python via xml.sax and the libxml2 parser fails with syntax error since libxml2 2.9.1-4

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File "/usr/lib/python3.3/xml/sax/__init__.py", line 78, in make_parser
return _create_parser(parser_name)
File "/usr/lib/python3.3/xml/sax/__init__.py", line 102, in _create_parser
drv_module = __import__(parser_name,{},{},['create_parser'])
File "/usr/lib/python3.3/site-packages/drv_libxml2.py", line 68
except ImportError, e:


To reproduce run this on python3:

from xml.sax import make_parser
make_parser(['drv_libxml2'])


Comments:

This breaks at least python-feedparser, but it may break a lot more stuff that asks explicitly for 'drv_libxml2', since before 2.9.1-4, python did not complain about missing drv_libxml2 and used a fallback.