Looks as OpenBSD buildbot imports xml.sax.saxutils from wrong place.

http://buildbot.python.org/all/builders/x86%20OpenBSD%205.5%202.7/builds/511/steps/test/logs/stdio

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ERROR: test_xmlgen_encoding_bytes (test.test_sax.StringXmlgenTest)
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Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/python-builds/2.7.borja-openbsd-x86/build/Lib/test/test_sax.py", line 297, in test_xmlgen_encoding_bytes
    gen.characters(u"\u20ac".encode(encoding))
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/_xmlplus/sax/saxutils.py", line 309, in characters
    writetext(self._out, content)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/_xmlplus/sax/saxutils.py", line 188, in writetext
    stream.write(escape(text, entities))
  File "/home/python-builds/2.7.borja-openbsd-x86/build/Lib/codecs.py", line 357, in write
    data, consumed = self.encode(object, self.errors)
  File "/home/python-builds/2.7.borja-openbsd-x86/build/Lib/encodings/iso8859_15.py", line 12, in encode
    return codecs.charmap_encode(input,errors,encoding_table)
UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xa4 in position 0: ordinal not in range(128)

saxutils.py is imported from /usr/local/lib/python2.7/ instead of the build directory. The error that causes UnicodeDecodeError was fixed in issue17606.

May be other test failures have the same cause.

Is the OpenBSD buildbot still active? If no, this issue can be closed.

(I can't find the OpenBSD buildbot on https://buildbot.python.org/all/#/)