[lxml-dev] Is resolve_entities not working ??

[Steve Howe]

Hello all,

Is the resolve_entities XmlParser constructor attribute not working or what 
did I do wrong ?

howe at yezda ~ $ python
Python 2.5.1 (r251:54863, Jan  9 2008, 05:34:21)
[GCC 4.2.2 (Gentoo 4.2.2 p1.0)] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> from lxml import etree
>>> print etree.__version__
2.0.1
>>> print etree.LIBXML_VERSION
(2, 6, 30)
>>> import StringIO
>>> xml = StringIO.StringIO('<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> 
<p>&copy;</p>')
>>> etree.parse(xml, etree.XMLParser(resolve_entities=False))
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "lxml.etree.pyx", line 2515, in lxml.etree.parse
  File "parser.pxi", line 1743, in lxml.etree._parseDocument
  File "parser.pxi", line 1775, in lxml.etree._parseMemoryDocument
  File "parser.pxi", line 1676, in lxml.etree._parseDoc
  File "parser.pxi", line 793, in lxml.etree._BaseParser._parseDoc
  File "parser.pxi", line 450, in 
lxml.etree._ParserContext._handleParseResultDoc
  File "parser.pxi", line 534, in lxml.etree._handleParseResult
  File "parser.pxi", line 476, in lxml.etree._raiseParseError
lxml.etree.XMLSyntaxError: Entity 'copy' not defined, line 1, column 46

Thanks!
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Best Regards,
Steve Howe