http://bugs.python.org/issue6499
zlib/gzip may not be present for all builds. Make xmlrpclib gracefully not supporg gzip encoding in this case
diff --git a/Lib/xmlrpclib.py b/Lib/xmlrpclib.py
index a712a64..57d0055 100644
--- a/Lib/xmlrpclib.py
+++ b/Lib/xmlrpclib.py
@@ -139,10 +139,13 @@
import re, string, time, operator
from types import *
-import gzip
import socket
import errno
import httplib
+try:
+ import gzip
+except ImportError:
+ gzip = None #python can be built without zlib/gzip support
# --------------------------------------------------------------------
# Internal stuff
@@ -1146,6 +1149,8 @@
Encode data using the gzip content encoding as described in RFC 1952
"""
+ if not gzip:
+ raise NotImplementedError
f = StringIO.StringIO()
gzf = gzip.GzipFile(mode="wb", fileobj=f, compresslevel=1)
gzf.write(data)
@@ -1168,6 +1173,8 @@
Decode data using the gzip content encoding as described in RFC 1952
"""
+ if not gzip:
+ raise NotImplementedError
f = StringIO.StringIO(data)
gzf = gzip.GzipFile(mode="rb", fileobj=f)
try:
@@ -1192,6 +1199,8 @@
def __init__(self, response):
#response doesn't support tell() and read(), required by
#GzipFile
+ if not gzip:
+ raise NotImplementedError
self.stringio = StringIO.StringIO(response.read())
gzip.GzipFile.__init__(self, mode="rb", fileobj=self.stringio)
@@ -1378,7 +1387,7 @@
# @param request_body XML-RPC body.
def send_request(self, connection, handler, request_body):
- if (self.accept_gzip_encoding):
+ if (self.accept_gzip_encoding and gzip):
connection.putrequest("POST", handler, skip_accept_encoding=True)
connection.putheader("Accept-Encoding", "gzip")
else:
@@ -1421,7 +1430,8 @@
#optionally encode the request
if (self.encode_threshold is not None and
- self.encode_threshold < len(request_body)):
+ self.encode_threshold < len(request_body) and
+ gzip):
connection.putheader("Content-Encoding", "gzip")
request_body = gzip_encode(request_body)