TypeError: string indices must be integers

What steps will reproduce the problem?

>>> import feedparser
>>> feedparser.parse('http://www.t-shops.co.uk/poll/hidden/podcasting/rlm.xml')

What is the expected output?

  Feed is parsed correctly.

What do you see instead?

  Traceback (most recent call last):
    File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
    File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/feedparser.py", line 4013, in parse
      saxparser.parse(source)
    File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/drv_libxml2.py", line 231, in parse
      _d(reader.Name()))
    File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/feedparser.py", line 1870, in endElementNS
      self.unknown_endtag(localname)
    File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/feedparser.py", line 717, in unknown_endtag
      method()
    File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/feedparser.py", line 1534, in _end_category
      if value and len(tags) and not tags[-1]['term']:
  TypeError: string indices must be integers

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?

  >>> feedparser.__version__
  '5.1.2'

  % dpkg -l python-feedparser
  Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
  | Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
  |/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
  ||/ Name             Version       Architecture  Description
  +++-================-=============-=============-======================================
  ii  python-feedparse 5.1.2-1ubuntu all           Universal Feed Parser for Python

A copy of the feed in question is attached.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by th.perl@gmail.com on 25 Feb 2013 at 2:03

Attachments:

• rlm.xml

Reproduce the failure with feedparser 5.1.2 using the URL or attached rlm.xml, then inspect feedparser.py around _end_category at line 1534. Confirm the category data shape that causes the TypeError and verify that the feed parses correctly without the exception.