Hi all, I'm proud to release lxml 2.1beta3 to PyPI. This is the first lxml release that builds and works on Python 2.3, 2.4, 2.5, 2.6 (beta) and 3.0 (beta).
http://codespeak.net/lxml/dev/ http://pypi.python.org/pypi/lxml/2.1beta3 Install with easy_install lxml==2.1beta3 What is lxml? """ In short: lxml is the most feature-rich and easy-to-use library for working with XML and HTML in the Python language. lxml is a Pythonic binding for the libxml2 and libxslt libraries. It is unique in that it combines the speed and feature completeness of these libraries with the simplicity of a native Python API. """ Unusual for a beta release, the third beta contains more new features than bug fixes, which is largely (but not only) due to adaptations with respect to Python 3. The changelog follows below. I expect this to be the last beta release before 2.1 final. Feedback is very much appreciated, especially on the "experimental" features like the namespace cleanup function and on Python 2.6/3.0 support. Your feedback will help in making the final release the best lxml ever. Have fun, Stefan 2.1beta3 (2008-06-19) Features added * Major overhaul of tools/xpathgrep.py script. * Pickling ElementTree objects in lxml.objectify. * Support for parsing from file-like objects that return unicode strings. * New function etree.cleanup_namespaces(el) that removes unused namespace declarations from a (sub)tree (experimental). * XSLT results support the buffer protocol in Python 3. * Polymorphic functions in lxml.html that accept either a tree or a parsable string will return either a UTF-8 encoded byte string, a unicode string or a tree, based on the type of the input. Previously, the result was always a byte string or a tree. * Support for Python 2.6 and 3.0 beta. * File name handling now uses a heuristic to convert between byte strings (usually filenames) and unicode strings (usually URLs). * Parsing from a plain file object frees the GIL under Python 2.x. * Running iterparse() on a plain file (or filename) frees the GIL on reading under Python 2.x. * Conversion functions html_to_xhtml() and xhtml_to_html() in lxml.html (experimental). * Most features in lxml.html work for XHTML namespaced tag names (experimental). Bugs fixed * ElementTree.parse() didn't handle target parser result. * Crash in Element class lookup classes when the __init__() method of the super class is not called from Python subclasses. * A number of problems related to unicode/byte string conversion of filenames and error messages were fixed. * Building on MacOS-X now passes the "flat_namespace" option to the C compiler, which reportedly prevents build quirks and crashes on this platform. * Windows build was broken. * Rare crash when serialising to a file object with certain encodings. Other changes * Non-ASCII characters in attribute values are no longer escaped on serialisation. * Passing non-ASCII byte strings or invalid unicode strings as .tag, namespaces, etc. will result in a ValueError instead of an AssertionError (just like the tag well-formedness check). * Up to several times faster attribute access (i.e. tree traversal) in lxml.objectify. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-announce-list Support the Python Software Foundation: http://www.python.org/psf/donations.html
