[Python-Dev] Doc suggestion for Elementtree (for 2.5? a bit late, I know...)

[Steve Holden]

Greg Ewing wrote:
> Paul Moore wrote:
> 
> 
>>The ElementTree module comes in two forms - a pure-python version
>>(xml.etree.ElementTree) and a C-coded implementation
>>(xml.etree.cElementTree) which is faster.
> 
> 
> If this is to be in the stdlib, is there any chance
> of tidying up the convoluted, uninituitive and
> non-pep8-compliant module naming structure?
> 
I'm guessing the answer is "no" since the objection was only raised when 
the code had been incorporated into a release candidate. It was probably 
"no" from the beginning given that there was already substantial usage 
of the code before it was adopted for the stdlib.

Standards, apparently, are for *other* people :-)

It would be good if 3.0 was *much* more hard-nosed about naming 
conventions. How can we expect the community as a whole to take them 
seriously if we don't take them seriously ourselves?

regards
  Steve
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