ElementTree - Why not part of the core?

[Fredrik Lundh]

ElementTree on the other hand provides incredibly easy access to XML
elements and works in a more Pythonic way. Why has the API not been
included in the Python core?

$ svn up
$ make
....
$ python
Python 2.5a0 (#1, Dec 12 2005, 19:26:49)
'hello, world!'

http://svn.python.org/view/python/trunk/Lib/xml/etree/

(and it's all your fault ;-)

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[Gregory Petrosyan]

gregory@home:~$ python
Python 2.5a0 (#1, Dec 14 2005, 14:11:55)
[GCC 3.3.5 (Debian 1:3.3.5-8ubuntu2)] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.5/xml.py", line 20, in <module>
import xmlcore
ImportError: No module named xmlcore

 

[Gregory Petrosyan]

This I've got after

make install

and

me@home:~$ python

When launching ./python from ./trunk, everything is OK. Is it a problem
with me or with installation?

 

[Istvan Albert]

$ python

Python 2.5a0 (#1, Dec 12 2005, 19:26:49)

hip hip hurray!

http://svn.python.org/view/python/trunk/Lib/xml/etree/

don't know how this works, the link now seems to be:

http://svn.python.org/view/python/trunk/Lib/xmlcore/etree/

 

[Steve Holden]

hip hip hurray!




don't know how this works, the link now seems to be:

http://svn.python.org/view/python/trunk/Lib/xmlcore/etree/

For 2.5 the current xml namespaces will, I believe, move to xmlcore.

Compatibility code will replace the current xml package, to ensure that
core modules not replaced by other components will still be available
under their old names. This will allow better handling of fallbacks
when, say, an optional C extension module is absent and it can be
replaced by an xmlcore pure Python module.

regards
Steve

 

[Fredrik Lundh]

don't know how this works, the link now seems to be:

http://svn.python.org/view/python/trunk/Lib/xmlcore/etree/

people are moving things around, but xml.etree.ElementTree should still
work when they're done.

("xml" dispatches to either xmlcore or _xmlplus, depending on what you
have installed. "xmlcore" always gives you the bundled stuff.)

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[Fredrik Lundh]

This I've got after

make install

and

me@home:~$ python

When launching ./python from ./trunk, everything is OK. Is it a problem
with me or with installation?

things are being moved around, and installation seems to be broken at the
moment (it doesn't install the Lib/xmlcore tree)

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[Fredrik Lundh]

When launching ./python from ./trunk, everything is OK. Is it a problem

things are being moved around, and installation seems to be broken at the
moment (it doesn't install the Lib/xmlcore tree)

if you have time, can you update and try again ?

(let me know if it's still broken on your machine)

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[Gregory Petrosyan]

gregory@home:~$ python
Python 2.5a0 (#4, Dec 14 2005, 22:08:59)
[GCC 3.3.5 (Debian 1:3.3.5-8ubuntu2)] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.<module 'xml.etree.ElementTree' from
'/usr/local/lib/python2.5/xmlcore/etree/ElementTree.pyc'>

Thanks for fix.