[lxml-dev] lxml 1.1 problems with python 2.3

[Stefan Behnel]

Hi Tres,

Tres Seaver wrote:
> Stefan Behnel wrote:
>> Tres Seaver wrote:
>>> 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
>> The problem is not that it can't be imported in 2.3, it's rather that we seem
>> to be using some features in the tests that were not yet available in 2.3's
>> doctest module. That's harder to test...
> 
> I'm attaching a patch which "fixes" this, assuming that we put the
> non-standard-for-Python-2.3 doctest.py into a new 'lxml.bbb' package.
> It still segfaults, but the tests do import from the bbb module.

Thanks for the patch. However, that's the kind of thing the "common_imports"
module is there for. So here's a somewhat simpler patch that should do the
same thing.

Stefan
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