Add SAXReaderNotAvailable, and use it to distinguish between an
ImportError, and a missing driver.
diff --git a/Lib/test/output/test_sax b/Lib/test/output/test_sax
index 53c5f97..d2ccf88 100644
--- a/Lib/test/output/test_sax
+++ b/Lib/test/output/test_sax
@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@
Passed test_expat_nsattrs_empty
Passed test_expat_nsattrs_wattr
Passed test_filter_basic
+Passed test_make_parser
Passed test_nsattrs_empty
Passed test_nsattrs_wattr
Passed test_xmlgen_basic
@@ -22,4 +23,4 @@
Passed test_xmlgen_ignorable
Passed test_xmlgen_ns
Passed test_xmlgen_pi
-23 tests, 0 failures
+24 tests, 0 failures
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_sax.py b/Lib/test/test_sax.py
index 1760eb2..b3576ab 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_sax.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_sax.py
@@ -2,10 +2,15 @@
# regression test for SAX 2.0
# $Id$
+from xml.sax import make_parser, ContentHandler
+try:
+ make_parser()
+except xml.sax.SAXReaderNotAvailable:
+ # don't try to test this module if we cannot create a parser
+ raise ImportError("no XML parsers available")
from xml.sax.saxutils import XMLGenerator, escape, XMLFilterBase
from xml.sax.expatreader import create_parser
from xml.sax.xmlreader import InputSource, AttributesImpl, AttributesNSImpl
-from xml.sax.handler import ContentHandler
from cStringIO import StringIO
from test_support import verbose, TestFailed, findfile
@@ -41,6 +46,17 @@
def test_escape_extra():
return escape("Hei på deg", {"å" : "å"}) == "Hei på deg"
+def test_make_parser():
+ try:
+ # Creating a parser should succeed - it should fall back
+ # to the expatreader
+ p = make_parser(['xml.parsers.no_such_parser'])
+ except:
+ return 0
+ else:
+ return p
+
+
# ===== XMLGenerator
start = '<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>\n'