[issue19862] Unclear xpath caching for custom namespaces

[Валерий]

New submission from Валерий:

Consider repeated executions of a code like this:
>tree = xml.etree.ElementTree.parse( full_name ) # many different files
>report_type = tree.getroot().attrib['Name'] # something changing
>tree.getroot().find( ".//t:Detail", {'t' : report_type} )

There is a _cache variable in \Lib\xml\etree\ElementPath.py:
>def iterfind(elem, path, namespaces=None):
>    // ...
>    try:
>        selector = _cache[path]
>    except KeyError:
>    // ...

In my code I use the same path (".//t:Detail"), so no KeyError exception is raised and cached (the same) value is used, but full path should be different ('.//{url_one}Detail', './/{url_two}Detail', etc) depending on namespaces dictionary.

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components: XML
messages: 205015
nosy: valeriy.nov
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: Unclear xpath caching for custom  namespaces
type: behavior
versions: Python 3.3

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