Lib/xml/__init__.py

   1 """Core XML support for Python.
   2
   3 This package contains three 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
  15
  16 __all__ = ["dom", "parsers", "sax"]
  17
  18 __version__ = "$Revision$".split()[1]
  19
  20
  21 _MINIMUM_XMLPLUS_VERSION = (0, 6, 1)
  22
  23
  24 try:
  25     import _xmlplus
  26 except ImportError:
  27     pass
  28 else:
  29     try:
  30         v = _xmlplus.version_info
  31     except AttributeError:
  32         # _xmlplue is too old; ignore it
  33         pass
  34     else:
  35         if v >= _MINIMUM_XMLPLUS_VERSION:
  36             import sys
  37             sys.modules[__name__] = _xmlplus
  38         else:
  39             del v