[Python-Dev] folding cElementTree behind ElementTree in 3.3

[Eli Bendersky]

>> The facade can be added to xml/etree/ElementTree.py since that's the
>> only documented module. It can attempt to do:
>>
>> from _elementtree import *
>>
>> (which is what cElementTree.py) does, and on failure, just go on doing
>> what it does now.
>
> Basically, cElementTree (actually the accelerator module) reuses everything
> from ElementTree that it does not implement itself, e.g. the serialiser or
> the ElementPath implementation in ElementPath.py (which is not commonly
> being used by itself anyway).
>
> ElementInclude is meant to be independently imported by user code and works
> with both implementations, although it uses plain ElementTree by default
> and currently needs explicit configuring for cElementTree. It looks like
> that need would vanish when ElementTree uses the accelerator module internally.
>
> So, ElementTree.py is a superset of cElementTree's C module, and importing
> that C module into ElementTree.py instead of only importing it into
> cElementTree.py would just make ElementTree.py faster, that's basically it.
>

Yep. Any objections from pydev?

Stefan, in the other thread (... XML batteries ) you said you will
contact Fredrik, did you manage to get hold of him?

Eli