[issue3590] sax.parser hangs on byte streams

Edward K Ream <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> added the comment: On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 10:09 AM, Benjamin Peterson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > > Benjamin Peterson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> added the comment: > > It should probably be changed to just while buffer != b"" since it > requests a byte stream. That w

[issue3590] sax.parser hangs on byte streams

Benjamin Peterson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> added the comment: It should probably be changed to just while buffer != b"" since it requests a byte stream. -- nosy: +benjamin.peterson ___ Python tracker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _

[issue3590] sax.parser hangs on byte streams

New submission from Edward K Ream <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: While porting Leo to Python 3.0, I found that passing any byte stream to xml.sax.parser.parse will hang the parser. My quick fix was to change: while buffer != "": to: while buffer != "" and buffer != b"": at line 123 of xmlreade