[Python-Dev] ElementTree in stdlib (original) (raw)

Steven Bethard steven.bethard at gmail.com
Tue Dec 13 02:11:20 CET 2005

Martin v. Löwis wrote:

Steven Bethard wrote: > I didn't really feel like the proposal was out of the blue. The > proposal has been brought up before, both on python-dev[1] and the > python-list[2]. ElementTree has a pretty large following - if you > look at XML-based questions on the python-list, I can almost guarantee > you that someone will give an elementtree solution to it (and not just > Fredrik). I don't know much about any other APIs, so I'm not going to > try to claim it's the best API or anything, but it is the best of what > seems to have any user visibility on the python-list.

It's difficult to establish precise numbers, but I would expect that most readers of xml-sig are well aware of how DOM and SAX work, perhaps even better than ElementTree.

Sorry, I didn't mean to imply that DOM and SAX (though mainly DOM in my experience) solutions weren't also offered on the python-list. It's just that we already have DOM and SAX APIs in the stdlib. My point was mainly that elementtree was the xml module that I've seen most often cited on python-list that isn't already in the stdlib.

STeVe

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