[Zope-Coders] expat fun & games

Matthew T. Kromer matt@zope.com
Tue, 12 Feb 2002 13:33:52 -0500


Martijn Faassen wrote:

>Hi there,
>
>I'm still happily wrestling expat to make ParsedXML work. I thought
>things would be easy, as, on Debian linux, I can do this:
>
>>>>import pyexpat
>>>>pyexpat.__version__
>>>>
>'2.45'
>
>>>>pyexpat.__file__
>>>>
>'/usr/lib/python2.1/lib-dynload/pyexpat.so'
>
>By making ParsedXML use this expat, everything seems to work fine.
>
>So, I thought, since Matt Kromer had been nice enough to include pyexpat
>in the Windows build, I can enable ParsedXML to use that one on Windows,
>right?
>
>You'd think so:
>

Um, for the 2.5 official distros, I don't include ParsedXML any more ;) 
 I got the impression it was causing more problems than it was worth. 
 However, the Windows distributed binary Python is the one from 
PythonLabs; so if it includes pyexpat than you've got it.



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