Issue #2175: SAX parsers now support a character stream of InputSource object.
diff --git a/Lib/xml/sax/saxutils.py b/Lib/xml/sax/saxutils.py
index 1d3d0ec..a69c7f7 100644
--- a/Lib/xml/sax/saxutils.py
+++ b/Lib/xml/sax/saxutils.py
@@ -345,11 +345,14 @@
elif hasattr(source, "read"):
f = source
source = xmlreader.InputSource()
- source.setByteStream(f)
+ if isinstance(f.read(0), str):
+ source.setCharacterStream(f)
+ else:
+ source.setByteStream(f)
if hasattr(f, "name") and isinstance(f.name, str):
source.setSystemId(f.name)
- if source.getByteStream() is None:
+ if source.getCharacterStream() is None and source.getByteStream() is None:
sysid = source.getSystemId()
basehead = os.path.dirname(os.path.normpath(base))
sysidfilename = os.path.join(basehead, sysid)