[lxml-dev] lxml 1.1 problems with python 2.3

[Tres Seaver]

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Martijn Faassen wrote:
> Hi there,
> 
> On Python 2.3 this segfaults with lxml 1.1 (it works with lxml 1.0):
> 
>    >>> from lxml import etree
>    >>> etree.parse('sfadfdfd')
> 
> On python 2.4 we get an error as we should (as the file sfafdfd doesn't 
> exist).
> 
> Additionally, the tests don't work anymore under Python 2.3. For lxml 
> 1.1 some dependencies on Python 2.4's doctest module exist that don't 
> work on Python 2.3, probably because we dropped the custom doctest that 
> I added initially. For lxml 1.0 this is less bad, but there are still 
> some dependencies on 'sorted()' and such in the tests.
> 
> I don't think we actually ever explictly dropped support for Python 2.3. 
> Perhaps we should for a particular version of lxml, but it'd be nice if 
> we could track down this bug. It might indicate something wrong in 
> Python 2.4 that just doesn't show up right away, I don't know.

Maybe we should return the custom doctest and wire it in via a
conditional import, e.g.::

  try:
      import doctest
  except ImportError:  # Python < 2.4
      from lxml.bbb import doctest


Tres.
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