[Python-Dev] please back out changeset f903cf864191 before alpha-2

[Eli Bendersky]

On Sat, Aug 24, 2013 at 5:55 PM, Stephen J. Turnbull <stephen at xemacs.org>wrote:

> Eli Bendersky writes:
>
>  > I'm strongly opposed to reverting [the change to ElementTree]
>  > because it cleaned up messy code duplication and actually make the
>  > code size smaller. While I agree that the API of incremental parsing
>  > should be given another look, IncrementalParser can also be seen as
>  > an implementation detail of iterparse().
>
> Except that its API is familiar and cleaner.  Does any current
> application depend on *not* doing whatever it is that the new API does
> that IncrementalParser *does* do?  If not, why not keep the API of
> IncrementalParser and shim the new code in under that?
>

I'm having a difficulty parsing the above. Could you please re-phrase your
suggestion?


>
>  > Thus, it's probably OK to revert the documentation part of the
>  > commit to not mention IncrementalParser at all,
>
> FWIW, as somebody who can recall using ET exactly one,
> IncrementalParser is what I used.
>
>
Just to be on the safe side, I want to make sure that you indeed mean
IncrementalParser, which was committed 4 months ago into the Mercurial
default branch (3.4) and has only seen an alpha release?

Eli
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