[Python-Dev] folding cElementTree behind ElementTree in 3.3

Brian Curtin brian at python.org
Wed Feb 8 05:29:12 CET 2012


On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 22:15, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:
> Folding the two
> implementations together in the standard library would mean officially
> declaring that xml.etree is now an independently maintained fork of
> Fredrik's version rather than just a "snapshot in time" of a
> particular version (which is what it has been historically).

Is ElementTree even still maintained externally? I seem to remember
Florent going through headaches to get changes into this area, and I
can't find an external repository for this code.


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