Issue #27369: Don’t test error message detail that changed in Expat 2.2.0
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_pyexpat.py b/Lib/test/test_pyexpat.py
index eba9058..72840bd 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_pyexpat.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_pyexpat.py
@@ -610,11 +610,9 @@
def test2(self):
xml = "<?xml version\xc2\x85='1.0'?>\r\n"
parser = expat.ParserCreate()
- try:
+ err_pattern = r'XML declaration not well-formed: line 1, column \d+'
+ with self.assertRaisesRegexp(expat.ExpatError, err_pattern):
parser.Parse(xml, True)
- self.fail()
- except expat.ExpatError as e:
- self.assertEqual(str(e), 'XML declaration not well-formed: line 1, column 14')
class ForeignDTDTests(unittest.TestCase):
"""
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 1623242..9ae2221 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -62,6 +62,12 @@
resulting links to use lowercase. Patch by Sean Rodman, test by Kaushik
Nadikuditi.
+Tests
+-----
+
+- Issue #27369: In test_pyexpat, avoid testing an error message detail that
+ changed in Expat 2.2.0.
+
What's New in Python 2.7.12?
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