[Python-Dev] XML codec?

[Fred Drake]

On Nov 9, 2007, at 8:22 AM, M.-A. Lemburg wrote:
> FWIW: I'm +1 on adding such a codec.

I'm undecided, and really don't feel strongly either way.

> It makes working with XML data a lot easier: you simply don't have to
> bother with the encoding of the XML data anymore and can just let the
> codec figure out the details. The XML parser can then work directly
> on the Unicode data.

Which is fine if you want to write a new parser.  I've no interest in  
that myself.

> Whether it needs to be in C or not is another question (I would have
> done this in Python since performance is not really an issue), but  
> since
> the code is already written, why not use it ?

The reason not to use C is the usual one:  The implementation is more  
cross-implementation if it's written in Python.  This makes it more  
useful with Jython, IronPython, and PyPy.

That seems a pretty good reason to me.


   -Fred

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