From 10acc8f9e23e8b5afc39041387d768342464e658 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Skip Montanaro Date: Sun, 17 Mar 2002 23:15:02 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] added note that xmlrpclib won't marshal instances of subclasses of the builtin types --- Doc/lib/libxmlrpclib.tex | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/Doc/lib/libxmlrpclib.tex b/Doc/lib/libxmlrpclib.tex index d8126e40720..0c25c027bbd 100644 --- a/Doc/lib/libxmlrpclib.tex +++ b/Doc/lib/libxmlrpclib.tex @@ -58,7 +58,9 @@ Python type): This is the full set of data types supported by XML-RPC. Method calls may also raise a special \exception{Fault} instance, used to signal XML-RPC server errors, or \exception{ProtocolError} used to signal an -error in the HTTP/HTTPS transport layer. +error in the HTTP/HTTPS transport layer. Note that even though starting +with Python 2.2 you can subclass builtin types, the xmlrpclib module +currently does not marshal instances of such subclasses. When passing strings, characters special to XML such as \samp{<}, \samp{>}, and \samp{\&} will be automatically escaped. However, it's