[Rivet] rivet and GENSER

[Eike von Seggern]

On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 15:58 +0100, Anton Karneyeu wrote:
> * second problem related with old version of python 2.3/2.4 on 
> slc4/slc5, which does not allow to direct use of several rivet python 
> scripts (make-plots, aida2root, aida2flat) due to use of module 
> xml.etree.ElementTree (which is available starting from python 2.5 only).
>    For this problem I see two solutions:
>      - to patch scripts to use xml.dom module.
>      - to install each time ElementTree module to some local directory 
> (small patching of scripts will be necessary in this case too).

Is cElementTree available? In this case one could use something like:

try:
    import xml.etree.cElementTree as ET
except ImportError:
    try:
        import cElementTree as ET
    except ImportError:
        import xml.etree.ElementTree as ET

Cheers
    eike