From 40f4a61cbc68fedae750cd13892bc1b72df8a172 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Marcus Huewe <suse-tux@gmx.de>
Date: Tue, 7 Apr 2015 15:27:40 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] - change_request_state: manual xml parsing is error-prone

---
 osc/core.py | 8 ++------
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/osc/core.py b/osc/core.py
index 2fc5beb1..21d89d77 100644
--- a/osc/core.py
+++ b/osc/core.py
@@ -4044,12 +4044,8 @@ def change_request_state(apiurl, reqid, newstate, message='', supersed=None, for
                 ['request', reqid], query=query)
     f = http_POST(u, data=message)
 
-    r = f.read()
-    if r.startswith('<status code="'):
-        r = r.split('<status code="')[1]
-        r = r.split('" />')[0]
-
-    return r
+    root = ET.parse(f).getroot()
+    return root.get('code', 'unknown')
 
 def change_request_state_template(req, newstate):
     if not len(req.actions):