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Since there appeared to be an overall positive response for making<br>
this change in Python 3.3, and since there isn't longer any doubt<br>
about the ownership of the package *in Python's stdlib* (see<br>
<a href="http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2012-February/116389.html" target="_blank">http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2012-February/116389.html</a>),<br>
I've opened issue 13988 on the bug tracker to follow the<br>
implementation.<br>
<span class="HOEnZb"></span><br></blockquote></div><br>The change was committed to the default branch. In 3.3, "import xml.etree.ElementTree" will automatically use the _elementtree accelerator, if available, and will fall back to a Python implementation otherwise. The documentation of ElementTree has also been updated to reflect this fact.<br>
<br>Thanks a lot to Florent Xicluna for the great co-operation, and all the others who submitted opinions in the issue. For more details see <a href="http://bugs.python.org/issue13988">http://bugs.python.org/issue13988</a><br>
<br>Eli<br><br></div>