Fredrik Lundh wrote: > Edvard Majakari wrote: > >> Using a SAX / full-compliant DOM parser could be good for learning >> things, though. As I said, depends a lot. > > since there are no *sane* reasons to use SAX or DOM in Python, that's > mainly a job security issue...
One sane reason is that ElementTree is not part of the standard library. There are cases where you write a simple python script of 400 lines and you want it to stay single-file. While ElementTree is very easy to distribute (for basic features it's just a single file), it still won't fit some scenarios. So, why did it not make it to the standard library yet, given that it's so much better than the alternatives? -- Giovanni Bajo -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
