Removed xmlrpclib, deferring to the version in the Python standard library.

xmlrpclib in Python 2.3+ includes support for nil values and basic auth, so
Zope no longer needs to provide its own version.

lib/python/ZPublisher/tests/test_xmlrpc.py

@@ -46,6 +46,16 @@ class XMLRPCResponseTests(unittest.TestCase):
         self.failUnless('public' in as_set.keys())
         self.assertEqual(as_set['public'], 'def')
 
+    def test_nil(self):
+        import xmlrpclib
+        body = FauxInstance(public=None)
+        faux = FauxResponse()
+        response = self._makeOne(faux)
+        response.setBody(body)
+        data, method = xmlrpclib.loads(faux._body)
+        self.assert_(data[0]['public'] is None)
+
+
 def test_suite():
     return unittest.TestSuite((unittest.makeSuite(XMLRPCResponseTests),))
 

lib/python/ZPublisher/xmlrpc.py

@@ -98,7 +98,7 @@ class Response:
     def setBody(self, body, title='', is_error=0, bogus_str_search=None):
         if isinstance(body, xmlrpclib.Fault):
             # Convert Fault object to XML-RPC response.
-            body=xmlrpclib.dumps(body, methodresponse=1)
+            body=xmlrpclib.dumps(body, methodresponse=1, allow_none=True)
         else:
             if type(body) == types.InstanceType:
                 # Avoid disclosing private members. Private members are
@@ -117,7 +117,8 @@ class Response:
             # was a Python None. This is now patched in xmlrpclib to
             # allow Nones nested inside data structures too.
             try:
-                body = xmlrpclib.dumps((body,), methodresponse=1)
+                body = xmlrpclib.dumps(
+                    (body,), methodresponse=1, allow_none=True)
             except:
                 self.exception()
                 return