Index: dist/src/Lib/XML/sax/saxutils.py
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RCS file: /cvsroot/python/python/dist/src/Lib/xml/sax/saxutils.py,v
retrieving revision 1.21
diff -u -r1.21 saxutils.py
--- dist/src/Lib/XML/sax/saxutils.py	24 Apr 2003 16:02:54 -0000	1.21
+++ dist/src/Lib/XML/sax/saxutils.py	22 Feb 2004 07:52:08 -0000
@@ -268,10 +268,11 @@
 
     if source.getByteStream() is None:
         sysid = source.getSystemId()
-        if os.path.isfile(sysid):
-            basehead = os.path.split(os.path.normpath(base))[0]
-            source.setSystemId(os.path.join(basehead, sysid))
-            f = open(sysid, "rb")
+        basehead = os.path.split(os.path.normpath(base))[0]
+        sysidfilename = os.path.join(basehead, sysid)
+        if os.path.isfile(sysidfilename):
+            source.setSystemId(sysidfilename)
+            f = open(sysidfilename, "rb")
         else:
             source.setSystemId(urlparse.urljoin(base, sysid))
             f = urllib.urlopen(source.getSystemId())