jsumners / jsumners/feedparser

Can't parse feed from url ('str' does not support the buffer interface)

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What steps will reproduce the problem?
>>> import feedparser
>>> d = feedparser.parse('http://feedparser.org/docs/examples/atom10.xml')
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "/usr/lib64/python3.4/site-packages/feedparser.py", line 3991, in parse
    saxparser.parse(source)
  File "/usr/lib64/python3.4/site-packages/drv_libxml2.py", line 190, in parse
    _d(reader.LocalName()))
  File "/usr/lib64/python3.4/site-packages/drv_libxml2.py", line 70, in _d
    return _decoder(s)[0]
  File "/usr/lib64/python3.4/encodings/utf_8.py", line 16, in decode
    return codecs.utf_8_decode(input, errors, True)
TypeError: 'str' does not support the buffer interface

feedparser-5.1.3, python-3.4.1, linux-3.16.5

Original issue reported on code.google.com by pkozlov....@gmail.com on 3 Dec 2014 at 8:50

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Reproduce the failure with the Python 3.4 example in the issue, then inspect feedparser.py around line 3991 and drv_libxml2.py around lines 70 and 190. Trace how the URL source reaches the decoder and verify that parsing the example Atom URL completes without the buffer-interface TypeError.

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Issue type
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