[Python-Dev] elementtree in stdlib

[Bob Ippolito]

On Apr 5, 2006, at 9:02 PM, Alex Martelli wrote:

>
> On Apr 5, 2006, at 8:30 PM, Greg Ewing wrote:
>
>> A while ago there was some discussion about including
>> elementtree in the std lib. I can't remember what the
>> conclusion about that was, but if it does go ahead,
>> I'd like to suggest that it be reorganised a bit.
>>
>> I've just started playing with it, and having a
>> package called elementtree containing a module
>> called ElementTree containing a class called
>> ElementTree is just too confusing for words!
>
> Try the 2.5 alpha 1 just released, and you'll see that the toplevel
> package is now xml.etree.  The module and class are still called
> ElementTree, though.

It would be nice to have new code be PEP 8 compliant..

Specifically:
Modules should have short, lowercase names, without underscores.

-bob