python25 expat problem

[paul.totterman@…]

    return ElementTree(file=f)
  File "/opt/local/lib/python2.5/xml/etree/ElementTree.py", line 546, in __init__
    self.parse(file)
  File "/opt/local/lib/python2.5/xml/etree/ElementTree.py", line 581, in parse
    parser = XMLTreeBuilder()
  File "/opt/local/lib/python2.5/xml/etree/ElementTree.py", line 1118, in __init__
    "No module named expat; use SimpleXMLTreeBuilder instead"
ImportError: No module named expat; use SimpleXMLTreeBuilder instead

This used to work fine in python25 2.5_0 but python25 2.5_1 is broken.

[jarkko.laiho@…]

Seconded. I got the pyexpat error while using plistlib.

(No traceback available, sorry.)

[meissnem@…]

Patch

[meissnem@…]

The attached port should fix the problem.

There is no external dependency on expat needed -- the sources to expat are shipped with the Python tarball, and it is statically linked into python.

[ianp@…]

I can confirm that I can duplicate this bug, and that the applied patch seems to resolve it for me. I'm using ports 1.430 on OS X 1.4.9 (8P135) on PPC.

[gwhitney@…]

The problem appears to be gone with the latest port of python25, which upgrades the release to 2.5.1. I'd recommend closing this ticket.