[issue6265] cElementTree & ElementTree use different exceptions for XML Errors

[Neil Muller]

New submission from Neil Muller <drnlmuller+bugs at gmail.com>:

cElementTree will raise a SyntaxError on XML parsing errors, while
ElementTree will raise ExpatError.  This makes changing between the two
a bit more problematic than it could be. See for example
https://lists.canonical.com/archives/bazaar/2006q3/017491.html

ElementTree 1.3 raises a ParseError, which is subclassed from
SyntaxError, which will improve the situation when it's merged, but
cElementTree should be adjusted to raise the same error.

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messages: 89247
nosy: Neil Muller, effbot, jerith
severity: normal
status: open
title: cElementTree & ElementTree use different exceptions for XML Errors
versions: Python 2.6, Python 2.7, Python 3.1, Python 3.2

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