[issue40563] Support pathlike objects on dbm/shelve

Gene Wood added the comment: @DahlitzFlorian it looks like a PR was submitted August of last year : https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/21849 -- nosy: +gene_wood ___ Python tracker <https://bugs.python.org/issue40

[issue17088] ElementTree incorrectly refuses to write attributes without namespaces when default_namespace is used

Gene Wood added the comment: One workaround to this is described here : http://stackoverflow.com/a/4999510/168874 It involves prefixing all of the elements with the namespace like this : from xml.etree import ElementTree as ET # build a tree structure root = ET.Element("