[XML-SIG] XPath in Python 2

[Dieter Maurer]

Paul Prescod writes:
 > Uche Ogbuji wrote:
 > > > 4XPath is cleaner from a user's point of view, but it requires a lot bit
 > > > of C/lex code for parsing the XPaths. I don't know if we would have to
 > > > go back to the BDFL to get permission for that code to go into Python.
 > > 
 > > Would it be good enough for us just to check in ANSI C code from FLEX/Bison?
 > 
 > I'm not sure that Guido would go for that because it means that everyone
 > must go back to you for changes, right?
The usual approach is to have generated C sources
*and* the flex/bison sources.

Thus, if someone wants to change at that level (few will),
they will need a C development system. With that, they
can easily build flex and bison as well.



Dieter