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

Nick Coghlan ncoghlan at gmail.com
Fri Apr 7 15:26:42 CEST 2006

Georg Brandl wrote:

Greg Ewing 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 Suppose I wanted to implement that, what would be the best strategy to follow: - change handling of IMPORTNAME and IMPORTFROM in ceval.c - emit different bytecodes in compile.c - directly create TryExcept AST nodes in ast.c

Definitely option 3, since you only have to modify the parser and the AST compiler.

To change it in compile.c, you have to first modify the parser, the AST definition and the AST compiler in order to get the info to the bytecode compiler.

To change it in ceval.c, you have to first modify the parser, the AST definition, the AST compiler and the bytecode compiler in order to get the info to the eval loop.

Given that import statements aren't supposed to be in time critical code, go for the easy option :)

Cheers, Nick.

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