[Python-Dev] folding cElementTree behind ElementTree in 3.3

[Paul Moore]

On 8 February 2012 12:21, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 10:04 PM, Antoine Pitrou <solipsis at pitrou.net> wrote:
>> On Wed, 8 Feb 2012 11:11:07 +0000
>> Paul Moore <p.f.moore at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> It's important to respect Fredrik's wishes and ownership, but we can't
>>> leave part of the stdlib frozen and abandoned just because he's not
>>> available any longer.
>>
>> It's not frozen, it's actually maintained.
>
> Indeed, it sounds like the most appropriate course (if we don't hear
> otherwise from Fredrik) may be to just update PEP 360 to acknowledge
> current reality (i.e. the most current release of ElementTree is
> actually the one maintained by Florent in the stdlib).

Ah, OK. My apologies, I had misunderstood the previous discussion. In
which case I agree with Nick, lets' update PEP 360 and move forward.

On that basis, +1 to Eli's suggestion of making cElementTree a
transparent accelerator.
Paul