[Python-Dev] Fixing the XML batteries (original) (raw)

Nick Coghlan ncoghlan at gmail.com
Fri Dec 16 09:54:17 CET 2011

On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 4:53 PM, Stefan Behnel <stefan_ml at behnel.de> wrote:

If these changes are considered acceptable, I'll copy the above over to the documentation bug I opened at

http://bugs.python.org/issue11379 Can these doc changes go into both 2.7 and 3.3? Given that there is no important difference between the implementations, I don't see why the documentation should differ in Py2.

Your suggested tweaks look good to me and could go into all of 2.7, 3.2 and 3.3

b) cElementTree should finally loose it's "special" status as a separate library and disappear as an accelerator module behind ElementTree. There was no opposition and a general agreement on this in the thread, except for the warning that Fredrik Lundh should have a word in this. I wrote him an e-mail and didn't get a response so far. We can wait a little longer, I guess, there's still time before 3.3beta.

Having ElementTree implicitly do "from _elementtree import *" is a 3.3 only change, though. (Note that xml.etree.cElementTree isn't the actual acceleration module - that honor already goes to "_elementtree". The only bit missing is the automatic import in xml.etree.ElementTree and the appropriate test updates to ensure the Python version still gets tested)

Cheers, Nick.

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