Replace elementtree

[guitarmanvt]

Elementtree hasn't been updated in 7 years--and is not compatible with Python 3. Would you consider using a more well-maintained XML parser, such as lxml, or (my favorite) BeautifulSoup4?

[jkoberg]

Of course. Can you give me some hints on porting effort? Would that be an easy conversion?

[guitarmanvt]

Unfortunately, all my work porting code from elementtree to lxml or BeautifulSoup has been non-trivial. It's not too hard, but these libraries work a little differently.

That said, I love BeautifulSoup. It makes accessing XML much more "pythonic."

For the Python 3 support, you might get almost all the way there by running the 2to3 conversion tool on your source files. Often, it's little things (like "print()") that keep something from being compatible with Python 3.

[mtalexan]

elementtree is (now) supported by Python3. It's part of the base of Python3.5, though I'm not sure which version it came in on originally.