[pypy-dev] which xml libraries? was (Re: PyPy 1.4 released)

René Dudfield renesd at gmail.com
Sun Nov 28 10:58:33 CET 2010


Hi,

what xml libraries are people using with pypy?  What is working well?

cu,


On Sun, Nov 28, 2010 at 9:48 AM, Maciej Fijalkowski <fijall at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hey.
>
> On Sun, Nov 28, 2010 at 10:57 AM, Phyo Arkar <phyo.arkarlwin at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > i got python-magic working , after i installed without easy_install
> > (easy_install fail because it tried to install ctypes).
>
> great
>
> >
> > Now what is not working is python-lxml , which is very important for my
> project.
>
> lxml won't work out of the box. if you think it's important enough,
> you can try to port cython to generate something saner (right now what
> it generates won't work on cpyext).
>
> Cheers,
> fijal
>
> >
> > here are the errors:
> >
> > Running lxml-2.3beta1/setup.py -q bdist_egg --dist-dir
> > /tmp/easy_install-Gg3GRA/lxml-2.3beta1/egg-dist-tmp-bwUkM2
> > Building lxml version 2.3.beta1.
> > NOTE: Trying to build without Cython, pre-generated
> > 'src/lxml/lxml.etree.c' needs to be available.
> > Using build configuration of libxslt 1.1.26
> > Building against libxml2/libxslt in the following directory: /usr/lib
> > src/lxml/lxml.etree.c:75: error: conflicting types for ‘Py_buffer’
> > /home/v3ss/pypy-1.4/include/object.h:19: note: previous declaration of
> > ‘Py_buffer’ was here
> >
> >
> > Had Anyone got lxml working in pypy successfully?
> >
> > On 11/27/10, Antonio Cuni <anto.cuni at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> On 27/11/10 03:09, Phyo Arkar wrote:
> >>> libmagic python fails to work on pypy (python-magic)
> >>>
> >>> it uses ctypes and easy-install try to download and instaill it , but
> it
> >>> fails.
> >>>
> >>> how to enable ctypes on pypy?
> >>
> >> Hi Phyo,
> >> ctypes *is* enabled on pypy by default.
> >>
> >> If python-magic does not work, it can either:
> >>
> >> 1) be a pypy bug: please report it as an issue (possibly with a simple
> >> failing
> >> test and the full traceack)
> >>
> >> 2) a python-magic issue, e.g. if it plays dirty ctypes trick that cannot
> >> really be supported by pypy due to the internal differences with CPython
> >>
> >> ciao,
> >> Anto
> >>
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