bpo-45948: Remove constructor discrepancy in C version of ElementTree.XMLParser ...

Both implementations accept target=None now.

diff --git a/Lib/test/test_xml_etree.py b/Lib/test/test_xml_etree.py
index 285559a872a65fbcac886f4aa0f1c3b4bf871ee2..a25f536134c7b25100ea5d455ceb4115b3d437ba 100644 (file)
--- a/Lib/test/test_xml_etree.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_xml_etree.py
@@ -758,6 +758,15 @@ class ElementTreeTest(unittest.TestCase):
                 ('end-ns', ''),
             ])
 
+    def test_initialize_parser_without_target(self):
+        # Explicit None
+        parser = ET.XMLParser(target=None)
+        self.assertIsInstance(parser.target, ET.TreeBuilder)
+
+        # Implicit None
+        parser2 = ET.XMLParser()
+        self.assertIsInstance(parser2.target, ET.TreeBuilder)
+
     def test_children(self):
         # Test Element children iteration
 

diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2022-02-05-18-22-05.bpo-45948.w4mCnE.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2022-02-05-18-22-05.bpo-45948.w4mCnE.rst
new file mode 100644 (file)
index 0000000..42dc114
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2022-02-05-18-22-05.bpo-45948.w4mCnE.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+Fixed a discrepancy in the C implementation of the
+:mod:`xml.etree.ElementTree` module. Now, instantiating an
+:class:`xml.etree.ElementTree.XMLParser` with a ``target=None``
+keyword provides a default :class:`xml.etree.ElementTree.TreeBuilder`
+target as the Python implementation does.

diff --git a/Modules/_elementtree.c b/Modules/_elementtree.c
index f155dc72152d4cd90af6937ba6aa4fb7c4a198cc..f54c28447ca8fa37397dfd8aaa94a39eb3a85eea 100644 (file)
--- a/Modules/_elementtree.c
+++ b/Modules/_elementtree.c
@@ -3637,7 +3637,7 @@ ignore_attribute_error(PyObject *value)
 _elementtree.XMLParser.__init__
 
     *
-    target: object = NULL
+    target: object = None
     encoding: str(accept={str, NoneType}) = None
 
 [clinic start generated code]*/
@@ -3645,7 +3645,7 @@ _elementtree.XMLParser.__init__
 static int
 _elementtree_XMLParser___init___impl(XMLParserObject *self, PyObject *target,
                                      const char *encoding)
-/*[clinic end generated code: output=3ae45ec6cdf344e4 input=53e35a829ae043e8]*/
+/*[clinic end generated code: output=3ae45ec6cdf344e4 input=7e716dd6e4f3e439]*/
 {
     self->entity = PyDict_New();
     if (!self->entity)
@@ -3670,7 +3670,7 @@ _elementtree_XMLParser___init___impl(XMLParserObject *self, PyObject *target,
                            (unsigned long)_Py_HashSecret.expat.hashsalt);
     }
 
-    if (target) {
+    if (target != Py_None) {
         Py_INCREF(target);
     } else {
         target = treebuilder_new(&TreeBuilder_Type, NULL, NULL);

diff --git a/Modules/clinic/_elementtree.c.h b/Modules/clinic/_elementtree.c.h
index 2c9ba47823bf43e8ed8cedc763176b9675467d70..5ed5a6cadd9d59c2fc861674124e1d741653db28 100644 (file)
--- a/Modules/clinic/_elementtree.c.h
+++ b/Modules/clinic/_elementtree.c.h
@@ -807,7 +807,7 @@ _elementtree_XMLParser___init__(PyObject *self, PyObject *args, PyObject *kwargs
     PyObject * const *fastargs;
     Py_ssize_t nargs = PyTuple_GET_SIZE(args);
     Py_ssize_t noptargs = nargs + (kwargs ? PyDict_GET_SIZE(kwargs) : 0) - 0;
-    PyObject *target = NULL;
+    PyObject *target = Py_None;
     const char *encoding = NULL;
 
     fastargs = _PyArg_UnpackKeywords(_PyTuple_CAST(args)->ob_item, nargs, kwargs, NULL, &_parser, 0, 0, 0, argsbuf);
@@ -915,4 +915,4 @@ skip_optional:
 exit:
     return return_value;
 }
-/*[clinic end generated code: output=1385b5e5688f3614 input=a9049054013a1b77]*/
+/*[clinic end generated code: output=992733cfc7390590 input=a9049054013a1b77]*/