Issue #6676: merge from 3.4

Doc/library/pyexpat.rst

@@ -100,6 +100,11 @@ The :mod:`xml.parsers.expat` module contains two functions:
       http://www.python.org/ns/ elem1
       elem2
 
+   Due to limitations in the ``Expat`` library used by :mod:`pyexpat`,
+   the :class:`xmlparser` instance returned can only be used to parse a single
+   XML document.  Call ``ParserCreate`` for each document to provide unique
+   parser instances.
+
 
 .. seealso::
 
@@ -119,7 +124,9 @@ XMLParser Objects
 
    Parses the contents of the string *data*, calling the appropriate handler
    functions to process the parsed data.  *isfinal* must be true on the final call
-   to this method.  *data* can be the empty string at any time.
+   to this method; it allows the parsing of a single file in fragments,
+   not the submission of multiple files.
+   *data* can be the empty string at any time.
 
 
 .. method:: xmlparser.ParseFile(file)

Lib/test/test_pyexpat.py

@@ -236,6 +236,18 @@ class ParseTest(unittest.TestCase):
         operations = out.out
         self._verify_parse_output(operations)
 
+    def test_parse_again(self):
+        parser = expat.ParserCreate()
+        file = BytesIO(data)
+        parser.ParseFile(file)
+        # Issue 6676: ensure a meaningful exception is raised when attempting
+        # to parse more than one XML document per xmlparser instance,
+        # a limitation of the Expat library.
+        with self.assertRaises(expat.error) as cm:
+            parser.ParseFile(file)
+        self.assertEqual(expat.ErrorString(cm.exception.code),
+                          expat.errors.XML_ERROR_FINISHED)
+
 class NamespaceSeparatorTest(unittest.TestCase):
     def test_legal(self):
         # Tests that make sure we get errors when the namespace_separator value

Misc/NEWS

@@ -119,6 +119,11 @@ Library
 - Issue #20817: Fix inspect.getcallargs() to fail correctly if more
   than 3 arguments are missing. Patch by Jeremiah Lowin.
 
+- Issue #6676: Ensure a meaningful exception is raised when attempting
+  to parse more than one XML document per pyexpat xmlparser instance.
+  (Original patches by Hirokazu Yamamoto and Amaury Forgeot d'Arc, with
+  suggested wording by David Gutteridge)
+
 Documentation
 -------------
 

Modules/pyexpat.c

@@ -908,7 +908,7 @@ xmlparse_ParseFile(xmlparseobject *self, PyObject *f)
         void *buf = XML_GetBuffer(self->itself, BUF_SIZE);
         if (buf == NULL) {
             Py_XDECREF(readmethod);
-            return PyErr_NoMemory();
+            return get_parse_result(self, 0);
         }
 
         bytes_read = readinst(buf, BUF_SIZE, readmethod);