Steven D'Aprano schrieb:
> On Tue, 01 Jan 2008 01:53:47 +0000, Peter Pei wrote:
>
>> You are talking shit. It is never about whether it is hard to write a
>> wrapper. It is about bad design. I should be able to parse a string and
>> a file in exactly same way, and that should be provided as part of the
>> package.
>
> Oh my, somebody decided to start the new year with all guns blazing.
>
> Before abusing anyone else, have you considered asking *why* ElementTree
> does not treat files and strings the same way? I believe the writer of
> ElementTree, Fredrik Lundh, frequents this newsgroup.
>
> It may be that Fredrik doesn't agree with you that you should be able to
> parse a string and a file the same way, in which case there's nothing you
> can do but work around it. On the other hand, perhaps he just hasn't had
> a chance to implement that functionality, and would welcome a patch.
>
> Fredrik, if you're reading this, I'm curious what your reason is. I don't
> have an opinion on whether you should or shouldn't treat files and
> strings the same way. Over to you...
I think the decision is pretty clear to everybody who is a code-monkey
and not a Peter-Pei-School-of-Excellent-And-Decent-Designers-attendant:
when building a XML-document, you start from a Element or Elementtree
and often do things like
root_element = <some_element>
for child in some_objects:
root_element.append(XML("""<child attribute="%i"/>""" %
child.attribute))
Which is such a common usage-pattern that it would be extremely annoying
to get a document from XML/fromstring and then needing to extract the
root-element from it.
And codemonkeys know that in python
doc = et.parse(StringIO(string))
is just one import away, which people who attend to
Peter-Pei-School-of-Excellent-And-Decent-Designers may have not learned
yet - because they are busy praising themselves and coating each other
in edible substances before stepping out into the world and having all
code-monkeys lick off their greatness in awe.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FM7Rpf1x7RU
Diez
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