Martin v. Löwis wrote:
> > Since all the relevant module names start with "Element", putting it
> > directly
> > under xml wouldn't be too bad. But an xml subpackage is better, and prior
> > art says "etree".
>
> So etree it is.
I just realized that the prior art (lxml.etree) uses etree as an alias for the
ElementTree module, not as a package name. this means that to import the
core Element type, you'd do:
# classic ET
from elementtree.ElementTree import Element
or
# bundled ET
from xml.etree.ElementTree import Element
or
# libxml-powered ET
from lxml.etree import Element
or
# accelerated ET
from cElementTree import Element
I'm not sure if this really is a problem. better explicit than implicit, as
PyXML
has shown us. if people want to be able to rapidly switch between versions,
they can always use from-import or import-as.
</F>
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