Eli Bendersky <eli...@gmail.com> added the comment: Ezio,
>> We are assuming that _elementtree might be missing, but what are the cases >> where this might actually happen? Other implementations like PyPy? Exotic >> platforms that can't compile _elementtree? I guess both. To make the stdlib work on PyPy without changes, it has to be able to load the pure Python modules in a fallback. As for platforms that can't compile _elementtree, keep in mind that there's also expat which _elementtree uses, so it's a lot of code to compile. Python works on some embedded systems, I'm not sure all of them can compile this code. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue13988> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
