[Python-3000] Help needed in py3k branch

[Guido van Rossum]

On 4/20/06, Thomas Wouters <thomas at python.org> wrote:
> On 4/21/06, Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org> wrote:
> > a bunch of tests for XML modules all fail (perhaps some of these are
> > related): minidom, sax, xdrlib, xml_etree
>
> I'm not sure if they're related, but I do believe they're all caused by
> classic-vs-new-style class semantics.

The minidom problems seem to be mostly due to excessive backwards
compatibility hacks (related to classic classes and more). Shall we
just kill minicompat.py? It's got hacks for supporting versions all
the way back to 2.1...

>  Oh, I guess I'll check in the exceptions fix, then ;-)

Thanks!

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