[issue5355] Expat parser error constants are string descriptions

[Suraj Barkale]

New submission from Suraj Barkale <suraj+python at barkale.com>:

All the error constants in `xml.parsers.expat.errors` are strings.
However, when expat raises an ExpatError exception, ExpatError.code
attribute is a number. There seems to be no way of associating
ExpatError with a corresponding error code from `xml.parsers.expat.errors.

Following code snippet should print "Ignore empty file" but in Python
2.6 it raises ExpatError.

    from xml.etree import ElementTree
    from xml.parsers import expat
    
    try:
        ElementTree.parse('')
    except expat.ExpatError as e:
        if e.code == expat.errors.XML_ERROR_NO_ELEMENTS:
            print "Ignore empty file"
        else:
            raise

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components: XML
messages: 82648
nosy: suraj
severity: normal
status: open
title: Expat parser error constants are string descriptions
type: behavior
versions: Python 2.6

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