tree d644869c93eda9cbcd59cece47e0fddbebfc5168
parent 24fb4c329a9b8e142e9d388901a1c59a07f94ed5
author John Beck <john.beck@oracle.com> 1412591187 +0800
committer Daniel Veillard <veillard@redhat.com> 1412591187 +0800

python/tests/sync.py assumes Python dictionaries are ordered

For https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=734017

Solaris has had libxml2 version 2.9.1 for a while, with Python versions 2.6 and
2.7.  While preparing to also build a module for Python 3.4, we ran into an
issue with the test case sync.py failing. The failure involved parsing a
string that included a Python dictionary, then complaining when the order of
the parsed result did not match the original order.  But Python dictionaries
are unordered by definition; see section 5.5 of
https://docs.python.org/2/tutorial/datastructures.html .  For whatever reason,
Python 2.6 and 2.7 always happened to report the pair of values back in their
original order, but with Python 3.4 the order is random.  The attached patch
allows for either order; it also fixes a typo that was repeated several times
thanks to the magic of copy & paste.