[Python-Dev] Doc suggestion for Elementtree (for 2.5? a bit late, I know...) (original) (raw)

Fredrik Lundh fredrik at pythonware.com
Mon Aug 28 13:03:43 CEST 2006

Paul Moore wrote:

One little addition to the elementtree docs. In the overview section, adding a paragraph explaining best practice for importing the module might be useful.

good idea.

PS This actually begs the question - are there platforms where xml.etree.cElementTree is not available?

not really; I usually recommend checking for

xml.etree.cElementTree
cElementTree
elementtree.ElementTree

in that order, if you just want to get the "best" implementation.

(there are some subtle differences between the C implementations and the Python implementations, so people who do non-standard stuff may want to use xml.etree.ElementTree, but I don't think that has to be mentioned in the overview)

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