Marco Sulla <[email protected]> added the comment:
@scoder:
1. the fact that == does not traverse the Element is IMHO unpythonic and
non-standard. A trivial example:
>>> a = {1: {2: 3}}
>>> b = {1: {2: 3}}
>>> a == b
True
You can have a dictionary complicated as you want, but if they have the same
structure, the two dictionaries will be always equals, even if their id are
not.
I think that no one could say to remove this dictionary feature and simply
check the ids, leaving the deep comparison to the user, without raising a
rebellion :)
2. the fact that SubElement seems a constructor is not an implementation
detail. It's misleading and confusing, since a programmer expects that it will
return an object of type SubElement, while there's no SubElement class. This is
peculiar. I can be wrong, but I never encountered such a bizarre naming in the
standard library. IMHO SubElement should be deprecated and it should call
`subElement()`, a simply copy of the old SubElement
3. I'm not suggesting to remove fromstringlist and tostringlist, but that they
could be deprecated and simply call fromstring and tostring, that should use
duck typing for doing what fromstringlist and tostringlist did.
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