From efcaba065ee06aba54d735b68bec5b89ba212497 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Eli Bendersky Date: Thu, 9 Aug 2012 08:20:20 +0300 Subject: Add description of major changes in xml.etree.ElementTree to whatsnew/3.3 --- Doc/whatsnew/3.3.rst | 12 ++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+) 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 ============= -- cgit v0.12