[XML-SIG] Differing symbols in PyXML?

[Uche Ogbuji]

On Wed, 2002-07-17 at 10:33, Fred L. Drake, Jr. wrote:
> 
> Uche Ogbuji writes:
>  > No.  I got it exactly backwards.  This is what I find on stock Debian
>  > Python 2.2. install (it's the same as what's in the Python 2.2 I built
>  > myself):
> 
> Well, at least this wasn't a side effect of my minidom changes!
> 
> I just trolled through the CVS logs and changes; it looks like Jeremy
> Kloth checked that name-change in xml/dom/__init__.py in revision
> 1.13.  This was a 4DOM change, not a minidom change!  ;-)
> 
> (On the other hand, I like the new name better.)

So do I, but only because it's the standard  :-)


> Probably the right thing to do for PyXML is to restore the original
> name and make the new name an alias.

Agreed.


> We should not use or encourage
> use of the new name.  I might like it better, but that's no reason to
> change the Python DOM API.  The documentation only names
> DomstringSizeErr.

Too bad.


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