[Expat-discuss] File not found error in the parser

[Justin Seyster]

Hmm, I wrote a script that just opens and parses an XML file, and it
gives me the same problem.  It looks like it's definitely something
wrong either with my machine's configuration or the particular version
of Python (and its Expat wappers) that I'm using.

I put the script below.
        --Justin

#!/usr/bin/env python

import sys

from xml.sax import handler
from xml.sax import make_parser
from xml.sax.handler import feature_namespaces

class BlankHandler(handler.ContentHandler):
    def __init__(self):
        pass

    def startElement(self, name, attrs):
        print "Start: ", name
        pass

    def endElement(self, name):
        print "End: ", name
        pass

if __name__ == '__main__':
    if len(sys.argv) != 2:
        sys.exit(1)
    xmlfile = sys.argv[1]

    parser = make_parser()
    parser.setFeature(feature_namespaces, 0)

    dh = BlankHandler()
    parser.setContentHandler(dh)

    try:
        xmlhandle = open(xmlfile, 'r')
        # Uncommenting the line below shows that xmlhandle can be read
        # successfully.
        #print xmlhandle.readline()
        parser.parse(xmlhandle)
        xmlhandle.close()
    except IOError as e:
        print "IOError: ",
        print e.strerror
        sys.exit(1)


On Tue, 2010-06-29 at 18:43 -0400, Fred Drake wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 6:27 PM, Justin Seyster
> <jseyster at cs.stonybrook.edu> wrote:
> > The one directory that works is not the current directory.  In fact, it
> > seems that the magic directory stays the same regardless of what the
> > current directory is (and whether I use an absolute or relative path).
> 
> Can you reproduce this with a short script that just does the XML parsing?
> 
> If so, please post that.
> 
> > I'm using the current Python from Ubuntu Karmic, which is 2.6.4.
> >
> > (Somebody kindly let me know that I sent this problem to the wrong list.
> > Sorry about that, and let me know if I should take this discussion of
> > the list.)
> 
> I'm not too worried about that; I'm unlikely to see this elsewhere.
> 
> 
>   -Fred
>