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| -rw-r--r-- | Doc/whatsnew/whatsnew25.tex | 8 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Lib/test/xmltests.py | 1 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Lib/xml/__init__.py | 8 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Misc/NEWS | 4 |
4 files changed, 19 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/whatsnew25.tex b/Doc/whatsnew/whatsnew25.tex index ee1683d..0b72f04 100644 --- a/Doc/whatsnew/whatsnew25.tex +++ b/Doc/whatsnew/whatsnew25.tex @@ -421,6 +421,12 @@ using the mode \code{'r|*'}. % patch 918101 (Contributed by Lars Gust\"abel.) +\item A new package \module{xml.etree} has been added, which contains +a subset of the ElementTree XML library. Available modules are +\module{ElementTree}, \module{ElementPath}, and +\module{ElementInclude}, from ElementTree 1.2.6. (Contributed by +Fredrik Lundh.) + \item The \module{xmlrpclib} module now supports returning \class{datetime} objects for the XML-RPC date type. Supply \code{use_datetime=True} to the \function{loads()} function @@ -437,6 +443,8 @@ using the mode \code{'r|*'}. % XXX new distutils features: upload +% XXX should hashlib perhaps be described here instead? +% XXX should xml.etree perhaps be described here instead? diff --git a/Lib/test/xmltests.py b/Lib/test/xmltests.py index 7963035..ced670b 100644 --- a/Lib/test/xmltests.py +++ b/Lib/test/xmltests.py @@ -15,5 +15,6 @@ def runtest(name): runtest("test.test_minidom") runtest("test.test_pyexpat") runtest("test.test_sax") +runtest("test.test_xml_etree") runtest("test.test_xmllib") runtest("test.test_xmlrpc") diff --git a/Lib/xml/__init__.py b/Lib/xml/__init__.py index 827439f..dc82f74 100644 --- a/Lib/xml/__init__.py +++ b/Lib/xml/__init__.py @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ """Core XML support for Python. -This package contains three sub-packages: +This package contains four sub-packages: dom -- The W3C Document Object Model. This supports DOM Level 1 + Namespaces. @@ -10,10 +10,14 @@ parsers -- Python wrappers for XML parsers (currently only supports Expat). sax -- The Simple API for XML, developed by XML-Dev, led by David Megginson and ported to Python by Lars Marius Garshol. This supports the SAX 2 API. + +etree -- The ElementTree XML library. This is a subset of the full + ElementTree XML release. + """ -__all__ = ["dom", "parsers", "sax"] +__all__ = ["dom", "parsers", "sax", "etree"] # When being checked-out without options, this has the form # "<dollar>Revision: x.y </dollar>" @@ -292,6 +292,10 @@ Extension Modules Library ------- +- Added a subset of Fredrik Lundh's ElementTree package. Available + modules are xml.etree.ElementTree, xml.etree.ElementPath, and + xml.etree.ElementInclude, from ElementTree 1.2.6. + - Patch #1162825: Support non-ASCII characters in IDLE window titles. - Bug #1365984: urllib now opens "data:" URLs again. |