[XML-SIG] [Patch #101683] Add 1.5.2 compatibility to PyXML

[Fred L. Drake, Jr.]

Martin v. Loewis writes:
 > The patch does modify the files that have been just synchronized with
 > the 2.0 CVS. Please let me know if you think that 1.5.2 compatibility
 > is not that important to risk forking from Python 2.0; or if you think
 > that 1.5.2 compatibility is definitely desirable.

  I certainly have no objections to 1.5.2 compatibility.  The Python
version of these files should be sync'ed to match these files.

 > I have not tested either xmlproc, or 4DOM, for 1.5.2 compatibility -
 > just the core functionality that is also in 2.0.
 > 
 > Regards,
 > Martin
 > 
 > (*) Of course, the test cases would not work unmodified. I had to
 > remove Unicode literals, and imports of testsupport.

  "testsupport"?  Do you mean test.test_support?  That should be
portable; nothing in there strikes me as 2.0 specific, and the module
isn't new.


  -Fred

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