From: Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org>
Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2001 18:33:11 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Under certain conditions (sometimes triggered by the test suite),
X-Git-Tag: v2.2.1c1~1498
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Under certain conditions (sometimes triggered by the test suite),
"from xml.parsers import expat" succeeds but the imported expat module
is an empty shell.  Make sure we don't be fooled by that.
---

diff --git a/Lib/xmlrpclib.py b/Lib/xmlrpclib.py
index 3524a45bdaa7..4e98c4c8026f 100644
--- a/Lib/xmlrpclib.py
+++ b/Lib/xmlrpclib.py
@@ -361,6 +361,8 @@ else:
 
 try:
     from xml.parsers import expat
+    if not hasattr(expat, "ParserCreate"):
+        raise ImportError, "ParserCreate"
 except ImportError:
     ExpatParser = None
 else: