Re: [Python-markdown-discuss] Ticket 80

[Dmitry T. <dty...@gm...>]

> Which means when using
> cElementTree, we need both cElementTree.Comment and
> ElementTree.Comment available. Crazy!

:-)

> Personally, I consider this a bug in cElementTree (it works with the
> builtin serializers because cElementTree actually uses ElementTree's
> serializers and they test again ElementTree.Comment) as it makes it
> ridiculously difficult to test for comment nodes in our own code when
> we are supporting both ElementTree and cElementTree at the same time.

I agree with you. It "defeats the purpose of cElementTree in the first place".

> However, given the current rate of ElementTree's development right
> now, I would expect that a fix would take a long time to propagate to
> all our users, so I've just committed what should be a working
> workaround.

Thanks, now I can remove my workarounds.

> Please let me know if you run into any problems with it.

No problems discovered.