Index: Lib/test/test_sax.py
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--- Lib/test/test_sax.py	(revision 50855)
+++ Lib/test/test_sax.py	(working copy)
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@
 except SAXReaderNotAvailable:
     # don't try to test this module if we cannot create a parser
     raise ImportError("no XML parsers available")
+
 from xmlcore.sax.saxutils import XMLGenerator, escape, unescape, quoteattr, \
      XMLFilterBase
 from xmlcore.sax.expatreader import create_parser
@@ -670,7 +671,29 @@
            attrs[(ns_uri, "attr")] == "val" and \
            attrs.getQNameByName((ns_uri, "attr")) == "ns:attr"
 
+import xml
+if xml.__name__ == "xmlcore":
+    #
+    # Only the core implementation is available, and this may only
+    # apply in that case.  Needs to be tested with Python 2.5 and
+    # PyXML still.
+    #
+    # This is specifically testing that the "xml" package is properly
+    # handled when the xmlcore package is used as the implementation.
 
+    def test_sf_1511497():
+        # Bug report: http://www.python.org/sf/1511497
+        sio = StringIO("invalid")
+        parser = make_parser()
+        from xml.sax import SAXParseException
+        try:
+            parser.parse(sio)
+        except SAXParseException:
+            return True
+        else:
+            return False
+
+
 # ===== Main program
 
 def make_test_output():