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

Andrew McNabb amcnabb at mcnabbs.org
Wed Feb 22 17:46:10 CET 2012

On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 04:24:38AM +0200, Eli Bendersky wrote:

Andrew, could you elaborate on your use case? Are you using cElementTree to do the parsing, or ElementTree (the Python implementation). Can you show a short code sample?

I'm mostly using ElementTree because several classes/functions that I need are not in cElementTree or behave differently. Specifically, the program loads TreeBuilder, XMLParser, iterparse from ElementTree; the only class from cElementTree that works is Element. A shortened version of the program is available here:

http://aml.cs.byu.edu/~amcnabb/gutenberg-short.py

By the way, this code is just one example of how one might rely on the documented extensibility of ElementTree. There are probably many other examples out there that look nothing like mine.

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