Alexandro Colorado wrote: > On Mon, 12 Nov 2007 05:06:56 -0600, Stefan Behnel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: >> Alexandro Colorado wrote: >>> Thanks for selling me into ElementTree however I cant because the >>> version of the Python distribution that is being shipped doesn't has >>> element tree so this make this a particular situation that I can only >>> used the standard libraries. >> I'm not sure I understand this. You are writing Python code, right? Why >> can't >> you just add another Python source file? (such as ElementTree.py) > > Well first of, will it be backward compatible with 2.3?
AFAIR, it works on Python 1.5.2 and later. > How can I include it on the fly without modifying the base install? By copying the file next to your own code? > What's wrong with SAX, aside from this whitespace issue I already have the > parsing I want. Plus SAX is not just a python thing I might need SAX for > other languages. No problem, go ahead. Since you already have an implementation, you probably have solved enough problems already, you'll solve the remaining ones also. > SAX is a very quick parser from what I've read. SAX is not a parser. It uses a parser in the background to generate SAX parse events (which IMHO are pretty ugly to work with, but that's what you wanted). > is there a way I can escape the non-printable characters Tried repr() ? (or "%r" for what it's worth...) Stefan _______________________________________________ XML-SIG maillist - XML-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/xml-sig
