1 # This patch has been submitted upstream but not yet accepted:

     2 # https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=734005

     3 

     4 --- libxml2-2.9.1/python/drv_libxml2.py.~1~	2009-07-30 08:24:34.000000000 -0700

     5 +++ libxml2-2.9.1/python/drv_libxml2.py	2014-07-30 10:43:36.655237802 -0700

     6 @@ -38,8 +38,11 @@

     7  __version__ = "0.3"

     8  

     9  import codecs

    10 -from types import StringType, UnicodeType

    11 -StringTypes = (StringType,UnicodeType)

    12 +try:

    13 +    from types import StringType, UnicodeType

    14 +    StringTypes = (StringType,UnicodeType)

    15 +except:

    16 +    StringTypes = (bytes,str)

    17  

    18  from xml.sax._exceptions import *

    19  from xml.sax import xmlreader, saxutils

    20 @@ -65,7 +68,7 @@

    21  

    22  try:

    23      import libxml2

    24 -except ImportError, e:

    25 +except ImportError as e:

    26      raise SAXReaderNotAvailable("libxml2 not available: " \

    27                                  "import error was: %s" % e)

    28