Any incompatibilities between 0.6.2 and 0.7 releases?

[John A Meinel]

Martin Pool wrote:
> On 25 Jan 2006, John A Meinel <john at arbash-meinel.com> wrote:
> 
>> You know, we probably should have fixed the exception. We could do a
>> 'try/except' around the import xml.sax and if it fails, we could let the
>> user know what is (probably) going on.
>>
>> I can put a quick fix into my jam-pending branch, though it is a little
>> late for 0.7 :)
> 
> Yes, at least giving a specific error would be good.
> 

How is this patch? It is a pretty simple fix, committed as revno 1510 on
my jam-pending branch.

John
=:->

=== modified file 'bzrlib/branch.py'
--- bzrlib/branch.py
+++ bzrlib/branch.py
@@ -20,7 +20,13 @@
 import os
 import errno
 from warnings import warn
-import xml.sax.saxutils
+try:
+    import xml.sax.saxutils
+except ImportError:
+    raise ImportError("We were unable to import 'xml.sax.saxutils',"
+                      " most likely you have an xml.pyc or xml.pyo file"
+                      " lying around in your bzrlib directory."
+                      " Please remove it.")
 from cStringIO import StringIO




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