[issue10425] xmlrpclib support for None isn't compliant with XMLRPC

[Éric Araujo]

Éric Araujo <merwok at netwok.org> added the comment:

Thanks for the report and patch.  You may find the following guidelines useful for your future contributions: http://www.python.org/dev/patches/

I have two questions about the proposed fix.  First, this line caught my eye:

  if tag.split(':')[1] == 'nil':

It seems wrong to handle a nil element from any namespace the same way.  I think namespaces should be supported properly or not at all.

Second point, can you point us to documentation about nil?  The Wikipedia article about XML-RPC and http://ontosys.com/xml-rpc/extensions.php agree that nil should not be a child of value, but say nothing about a namespace.  If it’s a band-aid for one specific server, I don’t think it’s acceptable.

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versions: +Python 2.7, Python 3.1, Python 3.2 -Python 2.6

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