Stefan Behnel <sco...@users.sourceforge.net> added the comment:

I agree that the lxml API is somewhat clumsy here. I just mentioned it to show 
that there are already ways to do it in a backwards compatible way, so this 
change does two things: it breaks existing code, and it does so in a way that 
is incompatible with other existing implementations. That's what *I* would call 
horrible.

Also, this is absolutely not a feature that is restricted to Py3, so what's the 
equivalent feature in the standard library of Py2 going to be, and how much 
code will it break for the Py2 series?

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