On Friday 23 February 2007 5:07 pm, Christoph Thiel wrote: > On Fri, Feb 23, 2007 at 02:22:27PM -0400, James Oakley wrote: > > I've noticed that python-elementtree was removed in Factory. Will it be > > returning? > > No, most likely it won't. > > > It's a very popular module that's used in a lot of Python projects, > > including osc. > > osc already has code in place to use Python 2.5's xml.etree. (We just need > to drop the python-elementtree requirement for $dist >= 10.2). All other > packages that depended on python-elementtree should have been patched to > use xml.etree. If there are still hidden problems with this, let me know! > > Is there any functionally that existed in python-elementtree, which is not > part of xml.etree that you relied on? (I only know of SimpleXMLWriter, > which was only used by repoview and therefore is now being shipped with > repoview.)
A list of differences can be found at http://codespeak.net/lxml/compatibility.html I have no problem porting my code, but other people may have trouble. Why not make ElementTree raise a DeprecationWarning for a short period to give people a chance to catch up? -- James Oakley [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
