[Docutils-develop] [PATCH 02/39] trivial: Remove obsolete PyXML handling code

[Stephen F. <st...@th...>]

PyXML is dead and doesn't support any of the Python versions we use. No
need to keep worrying about it screwing with stdlib's XML libraries.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Finucane <st...@th...ru>
---
 docutils/docutils/writers/docutils_xml.py | 13 -------------
 1 file changed, 13 deletions(-)

diff --git a/docutils/docutils/writers/docutils_xml.py b/docutils/docutils/writers/docutils_xml.py
index fd25a024f..d753d255b 100644
--- a/docutils/docutils/writers/docutils_xml.py
+++ b/docutils/docutils/writers/docutils_xml.py
@@ -11,19 +11,6 @@ http://docutils.sourceforge.net/docs/ref/docutils.dtd.
 __docformat__ = 'reStructuredText'
 
 import sys
-
-# Work around broken PyXML and obsolete python stdlib behaviour. (The stdlib
-# replaces its own xml module with PyXML if the latter is installed. However,
-# PyXML is no longer maintained and partially incompatible/buggy.) Reverse
-# the order in which xml module and submodules are searched to import stdlib
-# modules if they exist and PyXML modules if they do not exist in the stdlib.
-#
-# See http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=3552403&group_id=38414&atid=422030
-# and http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/python-devel/2012-July/000406.html
-import xml
-if "_xmlplus" in xml.__path__[0]: # PyXML sub-module
-    xml.__path__.reverse() # If both are available, prefer stdlib over PyXML
-
 import xml.sax.saxutils
 from StringIO import StringIO
 
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