list-like behaviour of etree.Element

Raymond Hettinger python at rcn.com
Mon Mar 5 02:44:16 EST 2007


On Mar 4, 12:48 pm, "Daniel Nogradi" <nogr... at gmail.com> wrote:
> The etree.Element (or ElementTree.Element) supports a number of
> list-like methods: append, insert, remove. Any special reason why it
> doesn't support pop and extend (and maybe count)?

Those methods would not be hard to add.  Perhaps, submit a feature
request to Fredrik Lundh on SourceForge and see what he thinks there
is merit in more closely emulating the list API.  Of the methods you
listed, the case is probably strongest for extend().


Raymond




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