Steven Bethard wrote: > I didn't really feel like the proposal was out of the blue. The > proposal has been brought up before, both on python-dev[1] and the > python-list[2]. ElementTree has a pretty large following - if you > look at XML-based questions on the python-list, I can almost guarantee > you that someone will give an elementtree solution to it (and not just > Fredrik). I don't know much about any other APIs, so I'm not going to > try to claim it's the best API or anything, but it is the best of what > seems to have any user visibility on the python-list.
It's difficult to establish precise numbers, but I would expect that most readers of xml-sig are well aware of how DOM and SAX work, perhaps even better than ElementTree. My main complaint about this was in the past that it is a Python-only solution, so people working in multiple languages cannot reuse their knowledge. It seems that this is irrelevant, as people don't work in multiple languages so much. I still think that Python should continue to provide standard APIs, for those that know how things are done in Java. Regards, Martin _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
