On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 2:36 PM, Stefan Behnel <stefan...@behnel.de> wrote: > > Note that ElementTree 1.2.x is a very mature piece of software. If there's > no new release for years, that doesn't mean it's abandoned.
Good feedback. > ET 1.3 is intended to fix API problems that older ET versions have > aggregated, very much in the way Py3 is intended to clean up the Python > language. So it's not meant as a bug fix, it's meant as a new thing that > breaks code. I think the main problem it currently has is that it fixes so > few things that it'd be hard to convince people to change their code to > support it. I expect that (plus the usual lack of time) to be the main > reason why Fredrik didn't finish it up yet. If he had more feedback about > it by users, he'd probably get around to pull another release. But as long > as there's no clear interest in following that path, I wouldn't expect 1.3 > final any time soon. That's exactly what I needed to know. So as I'm looking at XML libraries to use, ElementTree is a good place to start, since it'll be around. And if I need something a little more, lxml may be a good migration path since it's similar, but has dependencies. Thanks for the help. -- Andrew Diederich _______________________________________________ XML-SIG maillist - XML-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/xml-sig
