1 """Core XML support for Python. 2 3 This package contains four sub-packages: 4 5 dom -- The W3C Document Object Model. This supports DOM Level 1 + 6 Namespaces. 7 8 parsers -- Python wrappers for XML parsers (currently only supports Expat). 9 10 sax -- The Simple API for XML, developed by XML-Dev, led by David 11 Megginson and ported to Python by Lars Marius Garshol. This 12 supports the SAX 2 API. 13 14 etree -- The ElementTree XML library. This is a subset of the full 15 ElementTree XML release. 16 17 """ 18 19 20 __all__ = ["dom", "parsers", "sax", "etree"] 21 22 _MINIMUM_XMLPLUS_VERSION = (0, 8, 4) 23 24 25 try: 26 import _xmlplus 27 except ImportError: 28 pass 29 else: 30 try: 31 v = _xmlplus.version_info 32 except AttributeError: 33 # _xmlplus is too old; ignore it 34 pass 35 else: 36 if v >= _MINIMUM_XMLPLUS_VERSION: 37 import sys 38 _xmlplus.__path__.extend(__path__) 39 sys.modules[__name__] = _xmlplus 40 else: 41 del v 42
