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Description
Installing the future package provides an xmlrpc.server module that is not present in the python2.7 standard library (but is present in python3). Since the module provided by future only contains the contents of xmlrpclib, it lacks some items present in the python3 package, thus breaking code that assumes to be running under python3 when xmlrpclib.server is available.
Examples:
- Clean virtualenv, python2.7
>>> import xmlrpc.server
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
ImportError: No module named xmlrpc.server
>>> import SimpleXMLRPCServer
>>> SimpleXMLRPCServer
<module 'SimpleXMLRPCServer' from '/usr/lib/python2.7/SimpleXMLRPCServer.pyc'>
>>> SimpleXMLRPCServer.SimpleXMLRPCDispatcher
<class SimpleXMLRPCServer.SimpleXMLRPCDispatcher at 0x7fc4f5e58bb0>
- Virtualenv with
futureinstalled, python2.7
>>> import xmlrpc.server
>>> xmlrpc.server
<module 'xmlrpc.server' from '/home/marc/.venv/test/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/xmlrpc/server.pyc'>
>>> xmlrpc.server.SimpleXMLRPCDispatcher
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'SimpleXMLRPCDispatcher'
- python3
>>> import xmlrpc.server
>>> xmlrpc.server.SimpleXMLRPCDispatcher
<class 'xmlrpc.server.SimpleXMLRPCDispatcher'>
This forces projects that use xmlrpclib to workarounds such as tcalmant/jsonrpclib#30 .