[issue18990] Return root element from ElementTree.XMLPullParser.close() to match ElementTree.XMLParser

[Stefan Behnel]

Stefan Behnel added the comment:

> Unfortunately I don't have time to review refactoring patches now. In light of a larger refactoring planned in this part of the module in the future, I don't think it's very important to tweak things right now.

You misunderstood. The proposal was to remove the ".root" attribute, because it introduces a new API that hinders the future development and unnecessarily introduces an unprecedented inconsistency with existing APIs.

This is not a refactoring.

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