[lxml-dev] Python 3.0 Support

Dr R. Sanderson azaroth at liverpool.ac.uk
Sun Aug 3 17:18:19 CEST 2008


>>>  [but yes, there will be lxml for Python 3, and pretty soon]
>> Any news on the Py3k front?

> It's there in general, so you can compile lxml under Py3 and run your code
> against it for pure testing purposes.

Fantastic :)

And the thinko that was causing my problem is that fromstring() is all 
lowercase not fromString(). Duh.  Haven't run into any of the crashes 
yet.

> However, due to changes in Py3.0 beta2, you can get crashes in the exception
> [...]
> I'm working on fixing this, but I don't know when this will be done. It may
> take a couple of weeks, and will require a new source release of 2.1.x.

No problem!

Many thanks for the prompt reply,

Rob


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