r1068@spiff: Fredrik | 2005-12-12 19:50:30 +0100
assorted xml.etree tweaks
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 @@
% 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 @@
% 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 @@
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 @@
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>"
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 691774f..d675706 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -292,6 +292,10 @@
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.