Carl Banks wrote: > On Jun 25, 10:11 pm, Stefan Behnel wrote: >> Carl Banks wrote: >>>> Why isn't et.parse the only way to do this? Why have XML or fromstring >>>> at all? >>> Because Fredrick Lundh wanted it that way. Unlike most Python >>> libraries ElementTree is under the control of one person, which means >>> it was not designed or vetted by the community, which means it would >>> tend to have some interface quirks. >> Just for the record: Fredrik doesn't actually consider it a design "quirk". > > Well of course he wouldn't--it's his library.
That's not an argument at all. Fredrik put out a alpha of ET 1.3 (long ago, actually), which is (or was?) meant as a clean-up release for a number of real quirks in the library (lxml also fixes most of them since 2.0). The above definitely hasn't changed, simply because it's not considered 'wrong' by the author(s). Stefan -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
