New submission from Michiel de Hoon:
The expat parser in xml.parsers.expat has a Parse method and a ParseFile
method. The Parse method parses a string, however the ParseFile method wants
bytes.
This is a minimal example of the Parse method:
>>> import xml.parsers.expat
>>> p = xml.parsers.expat.ParserCreate()
>>> p.Parse('<?xml version="1.0"?>')
which runs fine. Note that argument to p.Parse is a string, not bytes.
This is the corresponding example of ParseFile:
>>> import xml.parsers.expat
>>> handle = open("test.xml")
>>> p = xml.parsers.expat.ParserCreate()
>>> p.ParseFile(handle)
where the file test.xml only contains <?xml version="1.0"?>
This gives an error:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
TypeError: read() did not return a bytes object (type=str)
Opening the file test.xml in binary raises an Error:
>>> import xml.parsers.expat
>>> handle = open("test.xml", "rb")
>>> p = xml.parsers.expat.ParserCreate()
>>> p.ParseFile(handle)
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
xml.parsers.expat.ExpatError: no element found: line 2, column 0
suggesting that in reality, the expat Parser needs a string, not bytes.
(the same error appears with a more meaningful XML file).
I would expect that both Parse and ParseFile accept strings, but not bytes.
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messages: 177733
nosy: mdehoon
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: expat ParseFile expects bytes, not string
type: behavior
versions: Python 3.3
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