[XML-SIG] RE: Expat crashing Python

Radestock, Guenter guenter.radestock@sap.com
Mon, 12 Feb 2001 19:06:56 +0100


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Alexandre Fayolle [mailto:Alexandre.Fayolle@logilab.fr]
> Sent: Montag, 12. Februar 2001 18:38
> To: Radestock, Guenter
> Cc: 'XML-SIG@python.org'
> Subject: Re: Expat crashing Python
> 
> 
> On Mon, 12 Feb 2001, Radestock, Guenter wrote:
> 
> > There seems to be a problem in pyexpat.  It crashes, when I feed it
> > a file with an incorrect XML prefix, something like:
> 
> I think this has been fixed, or else the bug does not show up 
> on Linux.
> 
> On a redhat 6.2 box, with python 1.5.2 and 4Suite0.10.2b1 
> (and whatever
> version of PyXML comes bundled with it), I get:
> 
> Traceback (innermost last):
>   File "<stdin>", line 2, in ?
> xml.parsers.expat.error: syntax error: line 1, column 6

Thanks again.  I tried to reproduce it, too under Linux (SuSE 7) and Windows
me
and another (nt) system without the XML package.  I could not reproduce it
on any
of those systems.  Mine is Win2000.  Hope I can find out what the problem
is,
or at least reproduce it.