I think Guido's post on XML is a good occasion to point again to my rant about the disdain for XML among Python programmers, posted almost exactly a year ago on this blog.
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(10) Wed Feb 01 2006 12:07 Guido and XML:
I saw a blog entry by Julien Anguenot praising the ElementTree+ (and cElementTree in particular) XML processing library, and also contrasted it with lxml, as in "why didn't I use lxml?". Since I created lxml, I thought I'd chip in and give my perspective on how it relates to ElementTree, and also give some context around Julien's statements about lxml in his blog entry. (2) Fri Feb 24 2006 10:23 lxml and (c)ElementTree:
