| """Core XML support for Python. | |
| This package contains four sub-packages: | |
| dom -- The W3C Document Object Model. This supports DOM Level 1 + | |
| Namespaces. | |
| parsers -- Python wrappers for XML parsers (currently only supports Expat). | |
| sax -- The Simple API for XML, developed by XML-Dev, led by David | |
| Megginson and ported to Python by Lars Marius Garshol. This | |
| supports the SAX 2 API. | |
| etree -- The ElementTree XML library. This is a subset of the full | |
| ElementTree XML release. | |
| """ | |
| __all__ = ["dom", "parsers", "sax", "etree"] | |
| _MINIMUM_XMLPLUS_VERSION = (0, 8, 4) | |
| try: | |
| import _xmlplus | |
| except ImportError: | |
| pass | |
| else: | |
| try: | |
| v = _xmlplus.version_info | |
| except AttributeError: | |
| # _xmlplus is too old; ignore it | |
| pass | |
| else: | |
| if v >= _MINIMUM_XMLPLUS_VERSION: | |
| import sys | |
| _xmlplus.__path__.extend(__path__) | |
| sys.modules[__name__] = _xmlplus | |
| else: | |
| del v |