[lxml-dev] lxml.html.ElementSoup

[Stefan Behnel]

Hi Martijn,

Martijn Faassen wrote:
> Stefan Behnel wrote:
>> Ian Bicking wrote:
> [snip]
>>> Also, should ElementSoup have a lower case name?  (Maybe renaming it 
>>> would make deprecating this parse behavior easier too)
>> I agree that it's not consistent, but it's how ET does it:
>>
>> http://effbot.org/zone/element-soup.htm
> 
> We do have precedents for lower-casing things that ET doesn't lowercase, 
> like the entire 'etree' module itself.

ok, but since we even have the same name, it's a good excuse for also
following the inconsistent API. :)

The API is the main problem here, not the package name.

Stefan