Issue #27369: Merge test_pyexpat from 3.4 into 3.5

2 files changed, 8 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/Lib/test/test_pyexpat.py b/Lib/test/test_pyexpat.py
index 0b68bfa..92fffc4 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_pyexpat.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_pyexpat.py
@@ -656,11 +656,9 @@ class MalformedInputTest(unittest.TestCase):
         # \xc2\x85 is UTF-8 encoded U+0085 (NEXT LINE)
         xml = b"<?xml version\xc2\x85='1.0'?>\r\n"
         parser = expat.ParserCreate()
-        try:
+        err_pattern = r'XML declaration not well-formed: line 1, column \d+'
+        with self.assertRaisesRegex(expat.ExpatError, err_pattern):
             parser.Parse(xml, True)
-            self.fail()
-        except expat.ExpatError as e:
-            self.assertEqual(str(e), 'XML declaration not well-formed: line 1, column 14')
 
 class ErrorMessageTest(unittest.TestCase):
     def test_codes(self):
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 3b7411c..835304b 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -90,6 +90,12 @@ C API
 - Issue #26754: PyUnicode_FSDecoder() accepted a filename argument encoded as
   an iterable of integers. Now only strings and bytes-like objects are accepted.
 
+Tests
+-----
+
+- Issue #27369: In test_pyexpat, avoid testing an error message detail that
+  changed in Expat 2.2.0.
+
 Tools/Demos
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