Ezio Melotti <ezio.melo...@gmail.com> added the comment: > In xml/etree there is: > - ElementTree: tries to import cElementTree. On success, done. On > ImportError, imports pyElementTree > - pyElementTree: the pure Python implementation > - cElementTree: sets up the bootstrap Python code and tries to import > _elementtree. In case of an error, propagates an ImportError up.
What I had in mind is more like: - ElementTree: defines the python code and if _elementtree is available overrides part of it with the functions imported from it; - cElementTree: at this point it could just be a deprecated alias for ElementTree ---------- stage: -> needs patch type: -> performance _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue13988> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com