[Python-Dev] elementtree in stdlib (original) (raw)
Martin Blais blais at furius.ca
Fri Apr 7 16:28:59 CEST 2006
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On 4/6/06, Fredrik Lundh <fredrik at pythonware.com> wrote:
Bob Ippolito wrote:
> > Try the 2.5 alpha 1 just released, and you'll see that the toplevel > > package is now xml.etree. The module and class are still called > > ElementTree, though. > > It would be nice to have new code be PEP 8 compliant.. it's not new code, and having different module names for the same well-established library isn't very nice to anyone.
(It's not new code, but it is new code to the stdlib.)
How about doing a rename but creating some kind of alias for the current names? That would serve everyone. (I also find the current naming to be unfortunate and stumble over it every time.)
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