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From the changelog of the feedparser:
2.7.2 - 1/13/2004 - MAP - feeds that are not well-formed XML are not parsed, and
the 'bozo' bit is set to 1 in the result. See
http://tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2004/01/11/PostelPilgrim
for an explanation of why anyone who can't create well-formed XML is a bozo
and an incompetent fool. You can disable this check by passing
disableWellFormedCheck=1, but it will write arrogant messages to stderr.
Don't know what Mark is smoking, but I do know that I won't base any product on a library written by someone with as bad behaviour as he shows with this last change. His change will immediately break tools with existing data if they update only his package. Data that was parsed fine before, but now breaks because of a minor release number upping! And all that just because he likes to do silly walking in computing ...
newer changelogs indicate that Mark was just joking. I still think it's the wrong place to make fun of people, but since it's his source, it's his decision.
Sorry, but this whole "Atom must be parsed strict" - "No, it must be parsed liberal or you are an asshole to your customers" - "No, you are an incompetent bozo" - "No, you are a conspirationist against Atom" helluva should stop right now. It went far enough, you all called each other names, so now go back, play with your toys and let the grownups take over, will you? Please?
Hell, it's called social software, not unsocial software, so try to behave at least half way to the expected standard ...
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