[issue6686] xml.sax.xmlreader.XMLReader.getProperty (xml.sax.handler.property_xml_string) returns bytes
New submission from Colin Stewart : The documentation for the xml.sax.handler.property_xml_string SAX property states that it should be "data type: String". However when retrieving this value in Python 3.1 it returns a bytes object instead. This makes handling the returned value very difficult because there is no method for retrieving the character set encoding that the XML was originally encoded with. This is currently blocking the port of SimpleTAL to Python 3 achieving feature parity with Python 2. -- components: XML messages: 91482 nosy: cms103 severity: normal status: open title: xml.sax.xmlreader.XMLReader.getProperty (xml.sax.handler.property_xml_string) returns bytes type: behavior versions: Python 3.1 ___ Python tracker <http://bugs.python.org/issue6686> ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
[issue6686] xml.sax.xmlreader.XMLReader.getProperty (xml.sax.handler.property_xml_string) returns bytes
Colin Stewart added the comment: I'm not familiar with the inner workings of the expat integration with Python, so the attached patches need careful review. The first patch (expatreader.py.patch) is the minimum to resolve this issue. The second patch (expatreader.py.patch2) also exposes the version and encoding parameters via the Locator2 interface (http://www.saxproject.org/apidoc/org/xml/sax/ext/Locator2.html), which I'd recommend including. -- keywords: +patch Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file14701/expatreader.py.patch ___ Python tracker <http://bugs.python.org/issue6686> ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
[issue6686] xml.sax.xmlreader.XMLReader.getProperty (xml.sax.handler.property_xml_string) returns bytes
Colin Stewart added the comment: Adding second patch. -- Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file14702/expatreader.py.patch2 ___ Python tracker <http://bugs.python.org/issue6686> ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
