[Python-Dev] Leading with XML-RPC

[Guido van Rossum]

> > It might benefit from also including the sgmlop.c extension.
> 
> +1 on including this one (after fixing the bugs, that is). People want
> a "good" XML parser in Python, regardless of XML-RPC; they complain
> that expat requires an external library.
> 
> sgmlop should then go into xml.parsers.sgmlop; making sgmllib and
> xmllib use sgmlop is optional.

+0

I believe sgmlop can crash on grossly bad input (admittedly I looked
at the source once over a year ago).  If this were fixed I'd be +1.

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)