[Python-Dev] elementtree in stdlib

[Giovanni Bajo]

Greg Ewing <greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz> wrote:

>>     try:
>>         import xml.etree.ElementTree as ET # in python >=2.5
>>     except ImportError:
>  >        ... etc ad nauseam
> 
> For situations like this I've thought it might
> be handy to be able to say
> 
>    import xml.etree.ElementTree or cElementTree or \
>      elementtree.ElementTree or lxml.etree as ET


Astonishingly cute. +1.

Giovanni Bajo