Under certain conditions (sometimes triggered by the test suite),

"from xml.parsers import expat" succeeds but the imported expat module is an empty shell. Make sure we don't be fooled by that.
2001-10-02 18:33:11 +00:00 · 2001-10-02 18:33:11 +00:00 · b855134a0d
parent e37e96df06
commit b855134a0d
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--- a/Lib/xmlrpclib.py
+++ b/Lib/xmlrpclib.py
@ -361,6 +361,8 @@ else:

 try:
    from xml.parsers import expat
+    if not hasattr(expat, "ParserCreate"):
+        raise ImportError, "ParserCreate"
 except ImportError:
    ExpatParser = None
 else: