[XML-SIG] Extending the xml package

[Juergen Hermann]

On Thu, 27 Jul 2000 14:37:19 -0400 (EDT), Fred L. Drake, Jr. wrote:

[I post this back to the list too and hope you don't care; actually I 
failed to click on "reply to all" once again with my original reply ;) ]=


>  You can check the value of xml.__name__; it will be "xml" for the
>standard module and "_xmlplus" for the extended version.

OK, that is a start. :)

>  That would work, but could easily create increased dependence on
>getting out a fresh PyXML package so that the version number will be
>available for people that rely on the extended package.
>  Is this what you mean?

No, I did not mean to *internally* check the version in the xml packages=
 
__init__ itself. 

I think *client* code should be able to do so. Since we are planning to =

(more or less regularly) update the core/stable/distributed xml package,=
 
we should support this by enabling client code to say what version of 
the extended stuff it relies(!) on.

If you say "import re" on a Python 1.5.2 system, you know what to expect=
 
(unless you have a wicked installation). This would be NOT the case for =

"import xml".


Ciao, J=FCrgen

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