[Rivet] rivet and GENSER

[Hendrik Hoeth]

Thus spake Anton Karneyeu (Anton.Karneyeu at cern.ch):

> I take a look on http://svn.hepforge.org/rivet/trunk/bin/ .
> As I see you use xml.etree.cElementTree or xml.etree.ElementTree modules.

Or plain cElementTree.

> Unfortunately these are available only from Python 2.5 (see 
> http://docs.python.org/library/xml.etree.elementtree.html ).
>
> SLC4 has Python 2.3.4, SLC5 has 2.4.3:

Oh joy. The two SL5 boxes which I use on a regular basis both have
Python 2.4.3 but cElementTree is available. Why it's not on lxplus is
beyond my understanding.

> So, the only way to use new Rivet 1.2.0 "from the box" on SLC, which I
> see, is to change xml parser to xml.dom or xml.sax. Do you think this
> is possible?

Do you think you could send us a patch that fixes this? You seem to know
better what's needed than I do -- XML isn't really my field of
experience.

Cheers,

    Hendrik

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