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

Greg Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Fri Apr 7 02:47:53 CEST 2006


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

-- Greg



More information about the Python-Dev mailing list