python-elementree doesn't seem to support python2.5?

Thanks for your comment. Why do you think that python-elementree it does not support python 2.5?

The description of python-elementree states that "ElementTree is included in Python 2.5, so there is no need to install this package if you are using Python 2.5."

Running under 2.5, i get this:-

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "conduit/start_conduit.py", line 50, in <module>
    from conduit.MainWindow import conduit_main
  File "/home/john/Projects/conduit/conduit/MainWindow.py", line 17, in <module>
    import elementtree.ElementTree as ET
ImportError: No module named elementtree.ElementTree

However, under 2.4, all is well. Does ElementTree need to be used a certain way to make it work under 2.4 and 2.5?

Easiest way to reproduce:

john@hx280:~$ python
Python 2.5 (release25-maint, Jan 15 2007, 20:25:01)
[GCC 4.1.2 20070106 (prerelease) (Ubuntu 4.1.1-21ubuntu7)] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import elementtree
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
ImportError: No module named elementtree
>>>
john@hx280:~$ python2.4
Python 2.4.4 (#2, Dec 13 2006, 13:59:24)
[GCC 4.1.2 20061212 (prerelease) (Ubuntu 4.1.1-21ubuntu2)] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import elementtree
>>>
john@hx280:~$

Thank you for the bug report. There is no real python-elementtree package in Feisty, therefore I assign this bug to package python2.5

The module python ElementTree is now included in python2.5, so the package python-elementtree is now deprecated.

And about your problem, it is because the module has been renamed, as you can see here:
http://www.python.org/dev/summary/2006-04-01_2006-04-15/#elementtree-naming

The new name for it is xml.etree but it's the same module.

If you have any other question, feel free to ask it.

Thanks
Pochu

Thank you both Emilio and John!

Thanks for this guys, I guess I should have looked into it a bit harder. Any opinions on the cleanest way to support 2.4 (+python-elementtree) and 2.5?

I'm not sure. Do you really need to support 2.5 and 2.4?

If you need, I have an idea. Make your package depends on python (>=2.4) and python-elementtree.

Then import the two names.

I'm not sure if this would work, but you can try it and test it :)

Good luck!
Pochu

Jc schrieb:
> Thanks for this guys, I guess I should have looked into it a bit harder.
> Any opinions on the cleanest way to support 2.4 (+python-elementtree)
> and 2.5?

please have a look at the bzr package:

try:
    try:
        # it's in this package in python2.5
        from xml.etree.cElementTree import (ElementTree, SubElement,
Element,
            XMLTreeBuilder, fromstring, tostring)
        import xml.etree as elementtree
    except ImportError:
        from cElementTree import (ElementTree, SubElement, Element,
                                  XMLTreeBuilder, fromstring, tostring)
        import elementtree
    ParseError = SyntaxError
except ImportError:
    mutter('WARNING: using slower ElementTree; consider installing
cElementTree'
           " and make sure it's on your PYTHONPATH")
    # this copy is shipped with bzr
    from util.elementtree.ElementTree import (ElementTree, SubElement,
                                              Element, XMLTreeBuilder,
                                              fromstring, tostring)
    import util.elementtree as elementtree