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Since there appeared to be an overall positive response for making
this change in Python 3.3, and since there isn't longer any doubt
about the ownership of the package \*in Python's stdlib\* (see
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2012-February/116389.html),
I've opened issue 13988 on the bug tracker to follow the
implementation.

The change was committed to the default branch. In 3.3, "import xml.etree.ElementTree" will automatically use the \_elementtree accelerator, if available, and will fall back to a Python implementation otherwise. The documentation of ElementTree has also been updated to reflect this fact.

Thanks a lot to Florent Xicluna for the great co-operation, and all the others who submitted opinions in the issue. For more details see http://bugs.python.org/issue13988

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