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gh-93018: Fix for the compatibility problems with expat #93900

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@mcepl mcepl commented Jun 16, 2022 •
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This is another take on #93022, fixes #93018.

  1. I believe it is inappropriate to assert on the error message for the external API. Error messages are not part of the provided contract with its users.
  2. I don't think we really care what exact exception is thrown, it is much more important that non-well-formed XML is discovered.
  3. Changing tests based on the version of library seems as a code smell to me, but that's a personal opinion.

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@bedevere-bot bedevere-bot added tests Tests in the Lib/test dir awaiting review labels Jun 16, 2022
@mcepl mcepl changed the title Fix for the compatibility problems with expat gh-93022: Fix for the compatibility problems with expat Jun 16, 2022
@mcepl mcepl changed the title gh-93022: Fix for the compatibility problems with expat gh-93018: Fix for the compatibility problems with expat Jun 16, 2022
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pythongh-93018: Fix for the compatibility problems with expat
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This is another take on python#93022, fixes python#93018.

1. I believe it is inappropriate to assert on the error message for the
   external API. Error messages are not part of the provided contract
   with its users.
2. I don't think we are really care what exact exception is thrown, it
   is much more important that non-well-formed XML is discovered.
3. Changing tests based on the version of library seems as a code smell
   to me, but that's personal opinion.
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Hi! I'm unsure of this direction at the moment, I'll leave to you to weigh the pros and cons of this approach.

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kraptor commented Jun 17, 2022

Hi! I'm unsure of this direction at the moment, I'll leave to you to weigh the pros and cons of this approach.

Hi @hartwork,

I think @mcepl is a good approach (from a linux distribution maintainer).

Note that a linux distro may backport patches (for dependencies like expat security issues are a must). In this case, for example, an older version of expat may have the CVE issue backported that renders this specific python test "broken", therefore testing against the expat version makes no sense.

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I understand that test failures are not nice, no matter what or who is causing them. So if it's tolerable that this PR makes the test suite slightly more forgiving and in a way less precise, then it's probably a good direction with regard to ridding the misleading test failures. Please see two comments on details below. Sorry I didn't find time to reply earlier.

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mcepl commented Dec 5, 2022

@hartwork Can we move on here, please?

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hartwork commented Dec 5, 2022

@hartwork Can we move on here, please?

Hi @mcepl, I don't have any merge or push permissions here, so there's not much I can do beyond my approval of August 13th above. Maybe @corona10 can help?

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lgtm

@corona10 corona10 merged commit 7031275 into python:main Dec 7, 2022
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The compatibility problems start with expat 2.4.4, not just 2.4.5
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