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

Thomas Wouters thomas at python.org
Fri Apr 7 10:54:39 CEST 2006

On 4/7/06, Greg Ewing <greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz> wrote:

Trent Mick wrote: > try: > import xml.etree.ElementTree as ET # in python >=2.5 > except ImportError: > ... etc ad nauseam For situations like this I've thought it might be handy to be able to say _import xml.etree.ElementTree or cElementTree or _ elementtree.ElementTree or lxml.etree as ET

That does look cute (note that you can use parentheses rather than newline-escaping to continue the line.) I assume it should come with:

from (xml.etree.cElementTree or xml.etree.ElementTree or elementtree.cElementTree or elementtree.ElementTree or lxml.etree) import ElementTree as ET

(Parentheses there are currently illegal.)

But should it also come with:

from xml.etree import (cElementTree or ElementTree) as ElementTree

and combined:

from xml.etree or elementtree import cElementTree or ElementTree as ElementTree

and of course combined with explicit-relative imports:

from .custometree or xml.etree or elementtree import cElementTree or ElementTree as ET

or is that all going too far? :)

-- Thomas Wouters <thomas at python.org>

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