[New-bugs-announce] [issue1483] xml.sax.saxutils.prepare_input_source ignores character stream in InputSource

[Yitz Gale]

New submission from Yitz Gale:

In the documentation for xml.sax.xmlreader.InputSource objects
(section 8.12.4 of the Library Reference) we find that
users of InputSource objects should use the following
sequence to get their input data:

1. If the InputSource has a character stream, use that.
2. Otherwise, if the InputSource has a byte stream, use that.
3. Otherwise, open a URI connection to the system ID.

prepare_input_source() skips step 1.

This is a one-line fix in Lib/xml/sax/saxutils.py:
-    if source.getByteStream() is None:
+    if source.getCharacterStream is None and source.getByteStream() is 
None:

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components: Library (Lib)
messages: 57737
nosy: ygale
severity: normal
status: open
title: xml.sax.saxutils.prepare_input_source ignores character stream in InputSource
versions: Python 2.5

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