>> The facade can be added to xml/etree/ElementTree.py since that's the >> only documented module. It can attempt to do: >> >> from _elementtree import * >> >> (which is what cElementTree.py) does, and on failure, just go on doing >> what it does now. > > Basically, cElementTree (actually the accelerator module) reuses everything > from ElementTree that it does not implement itself, e.g. the serialiser or > the ElementPath implementation in ElementPath.py (which is not commonly > being used by itself anyway). > > ElementInclude is meant to be independently imported by user code and works > with both implementations, although it uses plain ElementTree by default > and currently needs explicit configuring for cElementTree. It looks like > that need would vanish when ElementTree uses the accelerator module > internally. > > So, ElementTree.py is a superset of cElementTree's C module, and importing > that C module into ElementTree.py instead of only importing it into > cElementTree.py would just make ElementTree.py faster, that's basically it. >
Yep. Any objections from pydev? Stefan, in the other thread (... XML batteries ) you said you will contact Fredrik, did you manage to get hold of him? Eli _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com