# HG changeset patch
# Parent 1a38fa1f701d548a8edc297b635628f62f65c91d
Issue #6676: Ensure a meaningful exception is raised when attempting
to parse more than one XML document per pyexpat xmlparser instance.
(Original patches by Hirokazu Yamamoto and Amaury Forgeot d'Arc, with
suggested wording by David Gutteridge)

diff --git a/Doc/library/pyexpat.rst b/Doc/library/pyexpat.rst
--- a/Doc/library/pyexpat.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/pyexpat.rst
@@ -100,6 +100,11 @@
       http://www.python.org/ns/ elem1
       elem2
 
+   Due to limitations in the ``Expat`` library used by :mod:`pyexpat`,
+   the :class:`xmlparser` instance returned can only be used to parse a single
+   XML document.  Call ``ParserCreate`` for each document to provide unique
+   parser instances.
+
 
 .. seealso::
 
@@ -119,7 +124,9 @@
 
    Parses the contents of the string *data*, calling the appropriate handler
    functions to process the parsed data.  *isfinal* must be true on the final call
-   to this method.  *data* can be the empty string at any time.
+   to this method; it allows the parsing of a single file in fragments,
+   not the submission of multiple files.
+   *data* can be the empty string at any time.
 
 
 .. method:: xmlparser.ParseFile(file)
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_pyexpat.py b/Lib/test/test_pyexpat.py
--- a/Lib/test/test_pyexpat.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_pyexpat.py
@@ -236,6 +236,18 @@
         operations = out.out
         self._verify_parse_output(operations)
 
+    def test_parse_again(self):
+        parser = expat.ParserCreate()
+        file = BytesIO(data)
+        parser.ParseFile(file)
+        # Issue 6676: ensure a meaningful exception is raised when attempting
+        # to parse more than one XML document per xmlparser instance,
+        # a limitation of the Expat library.
+        with self.assertRaises(expat.error) as cm:
+            parser.ParseFile(file)
+        self.assertEqual(expat.ErrorString(cm.exception.code),
+                          expat.errors.XML_ERROR_FINISHED)
+
 class NamespaceSeparatorTest(unittest.TestCase):
     def test_legal(self):
         # Tests that make sure we get errors when the namespace_separator value
diff --git a/Modules/pyexpat.c b/Modules/pyexpat.c
--- a/Modules/pyexpat.c
+++ b/Modules/pyexpat.c
@@ -908,7 +908,7 @@
         void *buf = XML_GetBuffer(self->itself, BUF_SIZE);
         if (buf == NULL) {
             Py_XDECREF(readmethod);
-            return PyErr_NoMemory();
+            return get_parse_result(self, 0);
         }
 
         bytes_read = readinst(buf, BUF_SIZE, readmethod);