cElementTree clear semantics

[Fredrik Lundh]

Paul Boddie wrote:

> Regardless of anyone's alleged connection with Boo or newsgroup
> participation level, the advice to contact the package
> author/maintainer is sound. It happens every now and again that people
> post questions to comp.lang.python about fairly specific issues or
> packages that would be best sent to mailing lists or other resources
> devoted to such topics. It's far better to get a high quality opinion
> from a small group of people than a lower quality opinion from a larger
> group or a delayed response from the maintainer because he/she doesn't
> happen to be spending time sifting through flame wars amidst large
> volumes of relatively uninteresting/irrelevant messages.

well, for the record, I strongly recommend people to post questions in
public forums.  google is far more likely to pick up answers from mailing
list archives and newsgroups than from the "I really should do something
about all the mails in my support folder" part of my brain.

it's often a good idea to spend a little time looking for the right forum
(the xml-sig is a good place for elementtree-related questions), but
posting a question about a widely used Python library to c.l.python is
never wrong.

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