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Date: Tue, 06 Mar 2012 20:04:35 -0500
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On 3/6/2012 6:05 PM, John Salerno wrote:
>> Anything that allows me NOT to use REs is welcome news, so I look
>> forward to learning about something new! :)
>
> I should ask though...are there alternatives already bundled with
> Python that I could use?

lxml is +- upward compatible with xml.etree in the stdlib.

-- 
Terry Jan Reedy