Re: [Python-Dev] "xml" package in standard library

2005-12-14 Thread Martin v. Löwis
Fred L. Drake, Jr. wrote: > - Pickles containing classes from the xml package will break if we're not > really careful. But I think they're pretty fragile now. > > I'll be glad to make these or similar changes if there's concensus on this. I don't agree with the change. You just broke source c

Re: [Python-Dev] "xml" package in standard library

2005-12-14 Thread Fredrik Lundh
> you also broke my subversion: > > $ svn up > svn: subversion/libsvn_ra_svn/marshal.c:434: vwrite_tuple: Assertion `opt || > cstr' failed. > Aborted > > (but that's probably not your fault). > > has anyone seen this error? any ideas on how to fix it? google indicated that people had seen this

Re: [Python-Dev] "xml" package in standard library

2005-12-14 Thread Fred L. Drake, Jr.
On Wednesday 14 December 2005 12:13, Fredrik Lundh wrote: > looks like you broken installation (the libinstall target hasn't been > updated); from comp.lang.python: Ouch! Thanks for fixing this. > you also broke my subversion: > > $ svn up > svn: subversion/libsvn_ra_svn/marshal.c:434: vwr

Re: [Python-Dev] "xml" package in standard library

2005-12-14 Thread Fredrik Lundh
Fred L. Drake, Jr. wrote: > On Tuesday 13 December 2005 18:40, A.M. Kuchling wrote: > > +1; it's what should have been done in the first place. > > If only I'd understood that when I added the xml/PyXML hack to the stdlib > years ago. :-( > > Fixed now. I'll deal with the documentation in a few

Re: [Python-Dev] "xml" package in standard library

2005-12-14 Thread M.-A. Lemburg
Fred L. Drake, Jr. wrote: > On Tuesday 13 December 2005 18:40, A.M. Kuchling wrote: > > +1; it's what should have been done in the first place. > > If only I'd understood that when I added the xml/PyXML hack to the stdlib > years ago. :-( > > Fixed now. I'll deal with the documentation in a f

Re: [Python-Dev] "xml" package in standard library

2005-12-13 Thread Fred L. Drake, Jr.
On Tuesday 13 December 2005 18:40, A.M. Kuchling wrote: > +1; it's what should have been done in the first place. If only I'd understood that when I added the xml/PyXML hack to the stdlib years ago. :-( Fixed now. I'll deal with the documentation in a few days; I actually expect to have some

Re: [Python-Dev] "xml" package in standard library

2005-12-13 Thread A.M. Kuchling
On Tue, Dec 13, 2005 at 03:54:00PM -0500, Fred L. Drake, Jr. wrote: > I'd like to propose that a new package be created in the standard library: > xmlcore. This package should contain what's currently in the "xml" package. +1; it's what should have been done in the first place. --amk __

Re: [Python-Dev] "xml" package in standard library

2005-12-13 Thread Nick Coghlan
Fred L. Drake, Jr. wrote: > I'd like to propose that a new package be created in the standard library: > xmlcore. This package should contain what's currently in the "xml" package. > The xml package should be replaced with a single module that's responsible > for the magic that xml/__init__.py

[Python-Dev] "xml" package in standard library

2005-12-13 Thread Fred L. Drake, Jr.
I've CC'd the XML-SIG list on this; discussion should probably continue on python-dev since we're well into the xml package at this point. On Tuesday 13 December 2005 15:29, Fredrik Lundh wrote: > what's the status of PyXML? is it time to move it over to svn.python.org > and bring it up to 1.0