Re: switching to Python 2

[Jonathan H. <jon...@on...>]

On 27/9/2002 12:10, Will Partain wrote:

> I propose that, from 1st January 2003, we require Python 2
> for ARK, and try *very hard* to get by with nothing but the
> builtin 'minidom'.
> 
> OK, it may be a pain to have to have Python 2, but all the
> PyXML problems just vanish.  [And why would anyone *not*
> want Python 2 (which came out on Oct 16, 2000)?]

I'd second that. Though we have to add another dependency on expat being
installed first. Bah.

Perhaps we should just write our own XML parser. Heck, it's not that hard. I
wrote one yesterday...

Jonathan

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