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| author | Eli Bendersky <eliben@gmail.com> | 2012-08-09 05:20:20 (GMT) |
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| committer | Eli Bendersky <eliben@gmail.com> | 2012-08-09 05:20:20 (GMT) |
| commit | efcaba065ee06aba54d735b68bec5b89ba212497 (patch) | |
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Add description of major changes in xml.etree.ElementTree to whatsnew/3.3
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diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/3.3.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/3.3.rst index ce7a644..858fce8 100644 --- a/Doc/whatsnew/3.3.rst +++ b/Doc/whatsnew/3.3.rst @@ -1602,6 +1602,18 @@ project and :program:`gvfs-open` which is the default URI handler for GNOME 3. (:issue:`13620` and :issue:`14493`) +xml.etree.ElementTree +--------------------- + +The :mod:`xml.etree.ElementTree` module now imports its C accelerator by +default; there is no longer a need to explicitly import +:mod:`xml.etree.cElementTree` (this module stays for backwards compatibility, +but is now deprecated). In addition, the ``iter`` family of methods of +:class:`~xml.etree.ElementTree.Element` has been optimized (rewritten in C). +The module's documentation has also been greatly improved with added examples +and a more detailed reference. + + Optimizations ============= |