[mod_python] mod_python with 4Suite tools

Hi

I'm having hard time trying to make 4Suite tools co-operate with
mod_python (or vice versa). I'm using Python 2.2.2, Apache 2.0.43,
mod_python 3.0.1 and newest 4Suite development version. My system is
Debian unstable. python2.2-xml package is not installed.

The test program is in the end of this mail, the xml files used can be
found at http://www.heha.iki.fi/~heha/poll_dev/quiz2html.xsl and
http://www.heha.iki.fi/~heha/poll_dev/polls/quiz_1.xml. Test program works
perfectly when run from the command line. When requested by mod_python,
however, it 'obfuscates' the XML document. Characters used in marking
print out fine but everything else is some random binary data. I figured
out that it probably has something to do with encoding and added the
following lines to sitecustomize.py, as somebody advised in some distantly
similar problem:

u'hello'.encode( 'UTF-8' )
u'hello'.encode( 'iso8859-1' )

This did not help, whatsoever. I have no clue anymore where the problem
could be or how it could be corrected. Any suggestions? The same kind of
code works fine in mod_python 2.7.8 running in Apache 1.3.26 with Python
2.1 and 4Suite version 0.11.1.




#!/usr/bin/python2.2

import sys, os, string

from Ft.Lib import Uri
from Ft.Xml.Xslt import XmlWriter, Processor, OutputParameters
from Ft.Xml import Domlette, InputSource

def processXML():
    mypath = '/home/heha/public_html/poll_dev/'
    pollfile = mypath+'polls/quiz_1.xml'
    pollxsl = mypath+'quiz2html.xsl'

    debugfile = open( mypath+'poll.log', 'w' )
    processor = Processor.Processor()
    node = Domlette.NonvalidatingReader.parseUri( pollfile )
    Domlette.Print( node, debugfile, encoding='iso8859-1' )
    stylesheet = InputSource.DefaultFactory.fromUri( pollxsl )
    processor.appendStylesheet( stylesheet )

    processed_node = processor.runNode( node, Uri.OsPathToUri(
        pollfile, 1) )

    debugfile.write( processed_node )
    debugfile.close()

    return processed_node

    #print writer.getResult()

if __name__ == "__main__":
    print processXML()
else:
    from mod_python import apache

    def handler( req ):
        req.write( processXML() )
        return apache.OK



     Heikki Halonen # heha at iki.fi # iki.fi/heha # +358 40 828 9972
            "The easy way ain't hard enough and the hard way
                     is such a lonely lonely path"