@@ -919,7 +919,9 @@ class S3(object):

         debug("Object %s copied to %s" % (src_uri, dst_uri))

         if not response_copy["data"] or getRootTagName(response_copy["data"]) == "CopyObjectResult":

             self.object_delete(src_uri)

-            debug("Object %s deleted" % src_uri)

+            debug("Object '%s' deleted", src_uri)

+        else:

+            debug("Object '%s' NOT deleted because of an unexepected response data content.", src_uri)

         return response_copy

     def object_info(self, uri):

@@ -84,16 +84,17 @@ def getPrettyFromXml(xmlstr):

 __all__.append("getPrettyFromXml")

+RE_XML_NAMESPACE = re.compile(b'^(<?[^>]+?>\s*|\s*)(<\w+) xmlns=[\'"](http://[^\'"]+)[\'"]', re.MULTILINE)

 def stripNameSpace(xml):

     """

     removeNameSpace(xml) -- remove top-level AWS namespace

     Operate on raw byte(utf-8) xml string. (Not unicode)

     """

-    r = re.compile(b'^(<?[^>]+?>\s*)(<\w+) xmlns=[\'"](http://[^\'"]+)[\'"](.*)', re.MULTILINE)

-    if r.match(xml):

-        xmlns = r.match(xml).groups()[2]

-        xml = r.sub("\\1\\2\\4", xml)

+    xmlns_match = RE_XML_NAMESPACE.match(xml)

+    if xmlns_match:

+        xmlns = xmlns_match.group(3)

+        xml = RE_XML_NAMESPACE.sub("\\1\\2", xml, 1)

     else:

         xmlns = None

     return xml, xmlns

@@ -169,9 +170,11 @@ def appendXmlTextNode(tag_name, text, parent):

     return el

 __all__.append("appendXmlTextNode")

+RE_S3_DATESTRING = re.compile('\.[0-9]*(?:[Z\\-\\+]*?)')

+

 def dateS3toPython(date):

     # Reset milliseconds to 000

-    date = re.compile('\.[0-9]*(?:[Z\\-\\+]*?)').sub(".000", date)

+    date = RE_S3_DATESTRING.sub(".000", date)

     return dateutil.parser.parse(date, fuzzy=True)

 __all__.append("dateS3toPython")