commit 61de087f0f838f5b69592827d3d592c06aa9b655
author Serhiy Storchaka <storchaka@gmail.com> Thu Apr 02 21:00:13 2015 +0300
committer Serhiy Storchaka <storchaka@gmail.com> Thu Apr 02 21:00:13 2015 +0300
tree 302f1a8799a529de0213a395e30fb4705b53f6bf
parent 278ba2690c9367d36f138c880130aa1390fbaa19

Issue #2175: SAX parsers now support a character stream of InputSource object.

Lib/xml/sax/xmlreader.py

diff --git a/Lib/xml/sax/xmlreader.py b/Lib/xml/sax/xmlreader.py
index 7ef497f..716f228 100644
--- a/Lib/xml/sax/xmlreader.py
+++ b/Lib/xml/sax/xmlreader.py
@@ -117,7 +117,9 @@
         source = saxutils.prepare_input_source(source)
 
         self.prepareParser(source)
-        file = source.getByteStream()
+        file = source.getCharacterStream()
+        if file is None:
+            file = source.getByteStream()
         buffer = file.read(self._bufsize)
         while buffer:
             self.feed(buffer)