[Python-Dev] folding cElementTree behind ElementTree in 3.3

Wed Feb 8 08:31:16 CET 2012

>> The facade can be added to xml/etree/ElementTree.py since that's the
>> only documented module. It can attempt to do:
>>>> from _elementtree import *
>>>> (which is what cElementTree.py) does, and on failure, just go on doing
>> what it does now.
>> Basically, cElementTree (actually the accelerator module) reuses everything
> from ElementTree that it does not implement itself, e.g. the serialiser or
> the ElementPath implementation in ElementPath.py (which is not commonly
> being used by itself anyway).
>> ElementInclude is meant to be independently imported by user code and works
> with both implementations, although it uses plain ElementTree by default
> and currently needs explicit configuring for cElementTree. It looks like
> that need would vanish when ElementTree uses the accelerator module internally.
>> So, ElementTree.py is a superset of cElementTree's C module, and importing
> that C module into ElementTree.py instead of only importing it into
> cElementTree.py would just make ElementTree.py faster, that's basically it.
>
Yep. Any objections from pydev?
Stefan, in the other thread (... XML batteries ) you said you will
contact Fredrik, did you manage to get hold of him?
Eli