Raymond Hettinger wrote:
> On Mar 4, 12:48 pm, "Daniel Nogradi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> The etree.Element (or ElementTree.Element) supports a number of
>> list-like methods: append, insert, remove. Any special reason why it
>> doesn't support pop and extend (and maybe count)?
>
> Those methods would not be hard to add. Perhaps, submit a feature
> request to Fredrik Lundh on SourceForge and see what he thinks there
> is merit in more closely emulating the list API. Of the methods you
> listed, the case is probably strongest for extend().
extend() will be in the next release:
http://effbot.org/zone/elementtree-changes-13.htm
(lxml.etree already has it, btw).
not sure I see the point of pop() and count(). a successful feature request
would need to include some really compelling use cases.
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