From: [email protected]

I also have this problem; the problem seems to lie within /usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/drv_libxml2.py{c,o}. I don't have libxml2-python2.3 installed, so I don't know why these files are on my
system (I'm not familiar with the way python works), but removing them
makes straw work again. Alternately, applying the following patch to
straw makes straw not attempt to use the (apparently-broken) drv_libxml2 module, even if the files are there:

--- straw-0.24.orig/src/lib/feedparser.py 2004-08-12 10:01:41.000000000 -0400
+++ straw-0.24/src/lib/feedparser.py 2004-08-12 10:06:37.000000000 -0400
@@ -33,7 +32,7 @@
# List of preferred XML parsers, by SAX driver name. These will be tried first,
# but if they're not installed, Python will keep searching through its own list
# of pre-installed parsers until it finds one that supports everything we need.
-PREFERRED_XML_PARSERS = ["drv_libxml2"]
+PREFERRED_XML_PARSERS = []

# If you want feedparser to automatically run HTML markup through HTML Tidy, set
# this to 1. This is off by default because of reports of crashing on some





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