package elementtree doesn't work

[špela]

Hi.
I have installed elementtree to python, but it now doesn't work:

>>> from elementtree import ElementTree
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<pyshell#8 >", line 1, in <module>
from elementtree import ElementTree
File "C:\Program Files\Python\li b\site-packages\elemen ttree\ElementTr ee.py", line 794, in <module>
_escape = re.compile(eval (r'u"[&<>\"\u0080-\uffff]+"'))
File "<string>", line 1
u"[&<>\"\u0080-\uffff]+"
^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax

Python does not complain if I write
from elementtree import * but no function is working (or I just don't know how to use it):

>>> from elementtree import *
>>>
>>> feed('<h3>KOORD INATE - COORDINATES</h3>')
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<pyshell#1 1>", line 1, in <module>
feed('<h3>KOORD INATE - COORDINATES</h3>')
NameError: name 'feed' is not defined
>>> parse('<h3>KOOR DINATE - COORDINATES</h3>')
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<pyshell#1 2>", line 1, in <module>
parse('<h3>KOOR DINATE - COORDINATES</h3>')
NameError: name 'parse' is not defined

please, help.
Špela

[bvdet]

I works on my system. Note that only 'ElementPath' and 'ElementTree' are available when importing * from elementtree:

>>> from elementtree import ElementTree
>>> import elementtree as ET
>>> dir(ET)
['ElementPath', 'ElementTree', '__builtins__', '__doc__', '__file__', '__name__', '__path__']
>>> dir(ET.ElementTree)
['Comment', 'DefaultParserAPI', 'Element', 'ElementPath', 'ElementTree', 'PI', 'ProcessingInstruction', 'QName', 'SubElement', 'TreeBuilder', 'VERSION', 'XML', 'XMLID', 'XMLTreeBuilder', '_Element', '_ElementInterface', '_SimpleElementPath', '__all__', '__builtins__', '__doc__', '__file__', '__name__', '_encode', '_encode_entity', '_escape', '_escape_attrib', '_escape_cdata', '_escape_map', '_iterparse', '_namespace_map', '_raise_serialization_error', 'default_parser_api', 'dump', 'fixtag', 'fromstring', 'iselement', 'iterparse', 'parse', 'parser_api', 're', 'string', 'sys', 'tostring']
>>>

[špela]

it still doesn't work:

>>> from elementtree import ElementTree
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<pyshell#5 >", line 1, in <module>
from elementtree import ElementTree
File "C:\Program Files\Python\li b\site-packages\elemen ttree\ElementTr ee.py", line 794, in <module>
_escape = re.compile(eval (r'u"[&<>\"\u0080-\uffff]+"'))
File "<string>", line 1
u"[&<>\"\u0080-\uffff]+"
^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax
>>>

[bvdet]

Try executing this code on your system:

>>> import re
>>> _escape = re.compile(eval(r'u"[&<>\"\u0080-\uffff]+"'))
>>> _escape
<_sre.SRE_Pattern object at 0x00A71950>
>>>

That appears to be where the import is failing. What version of Python are you in?