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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.

An open question remains on whether to deprecate cElementTree, now that this change is in place.

Currently in 3.3 the whole cElementTree module is:

� # Deprecated alias for xml.etree.ElementTree

� from xml.etree.ElementTree import *

Would it be alright to issue a DeprecationWarning if this module is imported? Then hopefully a couple of releases after 3.3 we can just dump it.

Eli

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