[Python-Dev] elementtree in stdlib

Thu Apr 6 07:53:05 CEST 2006

Bob Ippolito wrote:
> > 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.
>> It would be nice to have new code be PEP 8 compliant..

it's not new code, and having *different* module names for the same
well-established library isn't very nice to anyone.
> Modules should have short, lowercase names, without underscores.

the PEP changes over time. the ElementTree module was perfectly
PEP-compatible when it was written.
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