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

Jeremy Hylton jeremy at alum.mit.edu
Wed Dec 14 17:43:22 CET 2005


On 12/14/05, M.-A. Lemburg <mal at egenix.com> wrote:

> we also need to figure out how to import the bundled version; should it be > cElementTree, xml.etree.cElementTree, or just xml.etree.ElementTree > (which would then fallback on the Python version if cElementTree isn't > built) ?

If the semantics are identical I'd prefer the latter approach of using the faster variant if possible.

That is my preference, too.

Jeremy



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