Santoso Wijaya added the comment: There is still a matter of inconsistency between the two implementations and between 2.7 and 3.x. IMO, the Python-based ElementTree implementation is more graceful at handling the "attrib" argument.
The signature of the factory function Element (and SubElement) in the doc is thus: class xml.etree.ElementTree.Element(tag, attrib={}, **extra) which is fair game for the user to use "attrib" as a keyword argument. Further, this serialization (in 3.x) does not really make sense, anyway: >>> cET.tostring(root) b'<root attrib="{\'Name\': \'Root\'}"><child attrib="{\'Name\': \'Child\'}" /></root>' ---------- components: +XML _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue21403> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com