Re: [Python-Dev] 2.5 issues need resolving in a few days

Fred L. Drake, Jr. wrote:

With the introduction of the xmlcore package in Python 2.5, should we document xml.etree or xmlcore.etree? If someone installs PyXML with Python 2.5, I don't think they're going to get xml.etree, which will be really confusing. We can be sure that xmlcore.etree will be there.

I think it would be unfortunate if an external, mostly unmaintained package could claim absolute ownership of the xml package root. how about tweaking the xml loader to map "xml.foo" to "_xmlplus.foo" only if that subpackage really exists ? </F>