[Python-Dev] elementtree in stdlib

Thu Apr 6 06:02:40 CEST 2006

On Apr 5, 2006, at 8:30 PM, Greg Ewing wrote:
> A while ago there was some discussion about including
> elementtree in the std lib. I can't remember what the
> conclusion about that was, but if it does go ahead,
> I'd like to suggest that it be reorganised a bit.
>> I've just started playing with it, and having a
> package called elementtree containing a module
> called ElementTree containing a class called
> ElementTree is just too confusing for words!

Try the 2.5 alpha 1 just released, and you'll see that the toplevel 
package is now xml.etree. The module and class are still called 
ElementTree, though.
Alex