Hi all, lxml 1.2 has been released to the cheeseshop. http://cheeseshop.python.org/pypi/lxml This is a somewhat conservative release in that it brings no major new features. It rather contains a number of bug fixes and cleanups, both internally and at the API level. Building lxml should have become easier again, and hacking the build process should now be a lot simpler. The complete changelog follows. What is lxml? """ lxml is a Pythonic binding for the libxml2 and libxslt libraries. It provides safe and convenient access to these libraries using the ElementTree API. It extends the ElementTree API significantly to offer support for XPath, RelaxNG, XML Schema, XSLT, C14N and much more. Lxml also features a sophisticated API for custom element classes. This is a simple way to write arbitrary XML driven APIs on top of lxml. There is a separate module lxml.objectify that implements a data-binding API on top of lxml.etree. """ See the web page for more information and documentation: http://codespeak.net/lxml/ Have fun, Stefan ========== ChangeLog: ========== 1.2 (2007-02-20) ================ Features added -------------- * Rich comparison of QName objects * Support for regular expressions in benchmark selection * get/set emulation (not .attrib!) for attributes on processing instructions * ElementInclude Python module for ElementTree compatible XInclude processing that honours custom resolvers registered with the source document * ElementTree.parser property holds the parser used to parse the document * setup.py has been refactored for greater readability and flexibility * --rpath flag to setup.py to induce automatic linking-in of dynamic library runtime search paths has been renamed to --auto-rpath. This makes it possible to pass an --rpath directly to distutils; previously this was being shadowed. Bugs fixed ---------- * Element instantiation now uses locks to prevent race conditions with threads * ElementTree.write() did not raise an exception when the file wasn't writable * Error handling could crash under Python <= 2.4.1 - fixed by disabling thread support in these environments * Element.find*() did not accept QName objects as path Other changes ------------- * code cleanup: redundant _NodeBase super class merged into _Element class Note: although the impact should be zero in most cases, this change breaks the compatibiliy of the public C-API