[Python-Dev] folding cElementTree behind ElementTree in 3.3

[Eli Bendersky]

> It probably wouldn't be very difficult to make element_new() the tp_new
> of Element_Type, and expose that type as "Element".
> That would settle the issue nicely and avoid compatibility concerns :)
>
> Regards
>

I guess it's not as simple as that. element_new doesn't quite have the
signature required for tp_new. Besides, a constructor would also be needed
(since a subclass may be interested in calling Element.__init__) and
there's no natural function to serve as the constructor.

I've opened issue 14128 to track this. I plan to implement a standard
tp_new and tp_init functions for Element to expose it as a class from the
module. element_new also happens to be used internally - I'll try to
refactor to avoid code duplication as much as possible.

Eli
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