[Python-Dev] folding cElementTree behind ElementTree in 3.3

[Eli Bendersky]

<snip>
> """A common pattern in Python 2.x is to have one version of a module
> implemented in pure Python, with an optional accelerated version
> implemented as a C extension; for example, pickle and cPickle. This
> places the burden of importing the accelerated version and falling
> back on the pure Python version on each user of these modules. In
> Python 3.0, the accelerated versions are considered implementation
> details of the pure Python versions. Users should always import the
> standard version, which attempts to import the accelerated version and
> falls back to the pure Python version. The pickle / cPickle pair
> received this treatment. The profile module is on the list for 3.1.
> The StringIO module has been turned into a class in the io module."""
>
> Is there a good reason why xml.etree.ElementTree /
> xml.etree.cElementTree did not "receive this treatment"?
>
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Since there appeared to be an overall positive response for making
this change in Python 3.3, and since there isn't longer any doubt
about the ownership of the package *in Python's stdlib* (see
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2012-February/116389.html),
I've opened issue 13988 on the bug tracker to follow the
implementation.

Eli