[issue15651] PEP 3121, 384 refactoring applied to elementtree module

[Antoine Pitrou]

Antoine Pitrou added the comment:

> Antoine, I committed your patch (with a bit of comments added),
> *leaving the module caching in*.

Thanks!

> A longer term solution to all this will be
> http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2013-August/127766.html -
> I want to eventually run all "monkey-patch the import environment to
> simulate some situation" sub-tests of ET in different subprocesses to
> they are kept independent.

I find it useful that the test suite stresses module unloading or
reloading. There's probably a bug either in ET or in the ET tests. I'm
not saying it's a very important issue of course, but IMHO it would be
better if we don't try to swipe it under the carpet :-)

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