import can't find xml.sax.saxlib from PyXML

[Walter Dörwald]

Stefan Behnel wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> I'm using PyXML 0.8.3 on a number of machines. When I now run
> 
> import xml.sax.saxlib
> 
> python touches both the python/xml/sax and python/site-packages/_xmlplus 
> modules but not _xmlplus/sax (I see that from strace), and then only 
> searches for saxlib in python/xml/sax, i.e. in stdlib. I therefore get 
> an ImportError though saxlib exists in _xmlplus/sax.
> 
> I know that it worked before, but I can't tell what changed on the 
> systems during new installations of new python versions. I tried it with 
> 2.3 (which worked before but somewhat surprisingly doesn't work any 
> more) and 2.4 (where I never managed to make this work).
> 
> Does anyone have a hint what I could try?

xml/__init__.py from python 2.4 contains:
    _MINIMUM_XMLPLUS_VERSION = (0, 8, 4)
so currently Python 2.4 will always fall back to the
builtin xml module.

A quick fix would be to change this back to:
    _MINIMUM_XMLPLUS_VERSION = (0, 8, 3)

(Or hope that a PyXML 0.8.4 will be released before
Python 2.4 final)

Bye,
    Walter Dörwald