Jeremy Hylton wrote: > On 12/14/05, M.-A. Lemburg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > we also need to figure out how to import the bundled version; should it be > > > cElementTree, xml.etree.cElementTree, or just xml.etree.ElementTree > > > (which would then fallback on the Python version if cElementTree isn't > > > built) ? > > > > If the semantics are identical I'd prefer the latter approach > > of using the faster variant if possible. > > That is my preference, too.
it's cStringIO vs. StringIO and cPickle vs. pickle situation again; the modules are 99% compatible, but there's always someone that relies on that last % (which is a result of ET being written in Python). at this point, I think it's more important to guarantee that changing "elementtree" to "xml.etree" will always work under Python 2.5 [1], than to have a new set of potential subtle incompatibility issues. but I have changed my mind before... </F> 1) except for users that need a newer version, of course. _______________________________________________ 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
