Hi Raymond,
As long as the new serialization order is deterministic (i.e. it's the same every run and doesn't depend on e.g. hash randomization), then I think it's fine to change it. Some more comments / questions: > 2). Go into every XML module and add attribute sorting options to each > function that generate xml. What do you mean with "every XML module"? Are there many of them? > Regardless of option chosen, we should make explicit whether on not the > Python standard library modules guarantee cross-release bytewise identical > output for XML. IMO we certainly shouldn't. XML is a serialization format used for machine interoperability (even though "human-editable" was one of its selling points at the start, rather misguidingly). However, the output should ideally be stable and deterministic accross all releases of a given bugfix branch. (i.e., if I run the same code multiple times on all 3.7.x versions, I should get always the same output) Regards Antoine. _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
