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.

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/Lib/xmlrpclib.py b/Lib/xmlrpclib.py
index 3524a45bda..4e98c4c802 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: