[Python-Dev] folding cElementTree behind ElementTree in 3.3 (original) (raw)

Paul Moore p.f.moore at gmail.com
Wed Feb 8 14:40:38 CET 2012

On 8 February 2012 12:21, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:

On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 10:04 PM, Antoine Pitrou <solipsis at pitrou.net> wrote:

On Wed, 8 Feb 2012 11:11:07 +0000 Paul Moore <p.f.moore at gmail.com> wrote:

It's important to respect Fredrik's wishes and ownership, but we can't leave part of the stdlib frozen and abandoned just because he's not available any longer.

It's not frozen, it's actually maintained. Indeed, it sounds like the most appropriate course (if we don't hear otherwise from Fredrik) may be to just update PEP 360 to acknowledge current reality (i.e. the most current release of ElementTree is actually the one maintained by Florent in the stdlib).

Ah, OK. My apologies, I had misunderstood the previous discussion. In which case I agree with Nick, lets' update PEP 360 and move forward.

On that basis, +1 to Eli's suggestion of making cElementTree a transparent accelerator. Paul

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