New submission from Ezio Melotti <ezio.melo...@gmail.com>: I'm working on #6026 and I noticed that the patch for #6267 introduced an "import gzip" in Lib/xmlrpclib.py in r73638. gzip tries to import zlib, and if it's not available the import fails. This led to 3 new tests failures in the trunk: test_xmlrpc, test_docxmlrpc and test_multiprocessing. This also mean that the modules xmlrpclib, DocXMLRPCServer and SimpleXMLRPCServer (and possibly others) cannot be imported anymore if zlib is not available (they used to work on 2.6).
xmlrpclib should check if the "import gzip" fails and disable the new gzip-related features (raising an error only when someone tries to use them). I don't know if this check can be moved directly on gzip but it seems unlikely. ---------- assignee: krisvale messages: 90599 nosy: ezio.melotti, krisvale priority: normal severity: normal stage: needs patch status: open title: Can't import xmlrpclib, DocXMLRPCServer and SimpleXMLRPCServer when zlib is not available type: behavior versions: Python 2.7 _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue6499> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
