bpo-30485: Change the prefix for defining the default namespace in ElementPath from None to '' since there is existing code that uses that and it's more convenient to have an all-string-keys dict (e.g. when sorting items etc.). (#12860)

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/Doc/library/xml.etree.elementtree.rst b/Doc/library/xml.etree.elementtree.rst
index c83e719..9e2c295 100644
--- a/Doc/library/xml.etree.elementtree.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/xml.etree.elementtree.rst
@@ -764,7 +764,7 @@ Element Objects
       Finds the first subelement matching *match*.  *match* may be a tag name
       or a :ref:`path <elementtree-xpath>`.  Returns an element instance
       or ``None``.  *namespaces* is an optional mapping from namespace prefix
-      to full name.  Pass ``None`` as prefix to move all unprefixed tag names
+      to full name.  Pass ``''`` as prefix to move all unprefixed tag names
       in the expression into the given namespace.
 
 
@@ -773,7 +773,7 @@ Element Objects
       Finds all matching subelements, by tag name or
       :ref:`path <elementtree-xpath>`.  Returns a list containing all matching
       elements in document order.  *namespaces* is an optional mapping from
-      namespace prefix to full name.  Pass ``None`` as prefix to move all
+      namespace prefix to full name.  Pass ``''`` as prefix to move all
       unprefixed tag names in the expression into the given namespace.
 
 
@@ -784,7 +784,7 @@ Element Objects
       of the first matching element, or *default* if no element was found.
       Note that if the matching element has no text content an empty string
       is returned. *namespaces* is an optional mapping from namespace prefix
-      to full name.  Pass ``None`` as prefix to move all unprefixed tag names
+      to full name.  Pass ``''`` as prefix to move all unprefixed tag names
       in the expression into the given namespace.