xml.sax.make_parser() returns "No parsers found"

[rkoziol7]

BPO	14839

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title = 'xml.sax.make_parser() returns "No parsers found"'
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[rkoziol7]

Hi all,

It seems a little weird for me but I can not find this bug created. So I create one.

Invoking xml.sax.make_parser() returns an Exception - as in the following example:

Python 2.7.3rc2 (default, Mar 21 2012, 06:59:11)
[GCC 4.6.3] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import xml.sax
>>> xml.sax.make_parser()
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/xml/sax/__init__.py", line 93, in make_parser
    raise SAXReaderNotAvailable("No parsers found", None)
xml.sax._exceptions.SAXReaderNotAvailable: No parsers found

Kind regards,
Rob

[Arfrever]

Your Python is missing pyexpat.so module, which is built only when expat library has been found. Check build log of Python to see why pyexpat.so is not available. (Maybe expat headers are not installed.)