Yahoo BOSS Python Library, ExpatError

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I tried to install the Yahoo BOSS mashup framework, but am having trouble running the examples provided. Examples 1, 2, 5, and 6 work, but 3 & 4 give Expat errors. Here is the output from ex3.py:

gpython examples/ex3.py
    examples/ex3.py:33: Warning: 'as' will become a reserved keyword in Python 2.6
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "examples/ex3.py", line 27, in <module>
    digg = db.select(name="dg", udf=titlef, url="http://digg.com/rss_search?search=google+android&area=dig&type=both&section=news")
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yos/yql/db.py", line 214, in select
    tb = create(name, data=data, url=url, keep_standards_prefix=keep_standards_prefix)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yos/yql/db.py", line 201, in create
    return WebTable(name, d=rest.load(url), keep_standards_prefix=keep_standards_prefix)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yos/crawl/rest.py", line 38, in load
    return xml2dict.fromstring(dl)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yos/crawl/xml2dict.py", line 41, in fromstring
    t = ET.fromstring(s)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/xml/etree/ElementTree.py", line 963, in XML
    parser.feed(text)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/xml/etree/ElementTree.py", line 1245, in feed
    self._parser.Parse(data, 0)
    xml.parsers.expat.ExpatError: syntax error: line 1, column 0

It looks like both examples are failing when trying to query Digg.com. Here is the query that is constructed in ex3.py's code:

diggf = lambda r: {"title": r["title"]["value"], "diggs": int(r["diggCount"]["value"])}
digg = db.select(name="dg", udf=diggf, url="http://digg.com/rss_search?search=google+android&area=dig&type=both&section=news")

Any help is appreciated.

Thanks!

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