id	summary	reporter	owner	description	type	status	component	version	severity	resolution	keywords	cc	stage	has_patch	needs_docs	needs_tests	needs_better_patch	easy	ui_ux
17641	HTMLParser has no interesting_cdata attribute with a Python version > 2.7.1	Ramiro Morales	nobody	"Our recent enhancements to the HTML content checking assertions in our test utils subclass and customizes standard library HTMLParser. But in recent HTMLParser shipped with recent 2.7.x CPythons there is no more a `interesting_cdata` module-level RE variable.

This results in 15 errors in our test suite like this

{{{
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ERROR: test_readonly_get (regressiontests.admin_views.tests.ReadonlyTest)
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Traceback (most recent call last):
  File ""tests/regressiontests/admin_views/tests.py"", line 2861, in test_readonly_get
    self.assertContains(response, '<p class=""help"">Some help text for the title (with unicode ŠĐĆŽćžšđ)</p>', html=True)
  File ""django/test/testcases.py"", line 627, in assertContains
    u""Response's content is not valid HTML:"")
  File ""django/test/testcases.py"", line 87, in assert_and_parse_html
    dom = parse_html(html)
  File ""django/test/html.py"", line 213, in parse_html
    parser.feed(html)
  File ""/usr/lib/python2.7/HTMLParser.py"", line 111, in feed
    self.goahead(0)
  File ""/usr/lib/python2.7/HTMLParser.py"", line 155, in goahead
    k = self.parse_starttag(i)
  File ""django/utils/htmlparser.py"", line 68, in parse_starttag
    self.set_cdata_mode(tag) # <--------------------------- Changed
  File ""django/utils/htmlparser.py"", line 14, in set_cdata_mode
    self.interesting = _HTMLParser.interesting_cdata
AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'interesting_cdata'
}}}

See:

* http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/91163aa3d5b4
* http://bugs.python.org/issue13358

Our CI server is using an older 2.7.x Python.
"	Bug	new	Testing framework	dev	Release blocker				Accepted	1	0	1	0	0	0