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

Steve Holden steve at holdenweb.com
Tue Aug 29 06:36:05 CEST 2006

Greg Ewing wrote:

Paul Moore wrote:

The ElementTree module comes in two forms - a pure-python version (xml.etree.ElementTree) and a C-coded implementation (xml.etree.cElementTree) which is faster. If this is to be in the stdlib, is there any chance of tidying up the convoluted, uninituitive and non-pep8-compliant module naming structure? I'm guessing the answer is "no" since the objection was only raised when the code had been incorporated into a release candidate. It was probably "no" from the beginning given that there was already substantial usage of the code before it was adopted for the stdlib.

Standards, apparently, are for other people :-)

It would be good if 3.0 was much more hard-nosed about naming conventions. How can we expect the community as a whole to take them seriously if we don't take them seriously ourselves?

regards Steve

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