exception in start handler of HTML parser target ignored

[Steve Randall]

When using a custom target with the lxml.etree.HTMLParser, an exception from the 'start' handler is ignored instead of terminating the parse. This does not affect other handlers, nor does it affect the XML parser.

Python : sys.version_info(major=3, minor=4, micro=3, releaselevel='final', serial=0)
lxml.etree : (3, 4, 4, 0)
libxml used : (2, 9, 2)
libxml compiled : (2, 9, 2)
libxslt used : (1, 1, 28)
libxslt compiled : (1, 1, 28)

[scoder (scoder)]

Could you provide a test case?

[Steve Randall (srandall52-o)]

Yes, it's more complicated than I thought.

XMLParser stops parsing at the first error, calls the target's close, then re-raises the exception.

HTMLParser completes parsing, calls the target's close, then re-raises the *last* exception, which hides the real problem.

I think it's now clear how I can work around this.