[Xcb] [patch] remove python 2.5 dependency

[Eamon Walsh]

George Wright wrote:
> Hey all,
>
> Attached is a small patch that should remove the python 2.5 dependency and 
> allow it to work with python 2.3.
>
> Any feedback would be much appreciated.
>   

Hi, has this been tested?  When I looked into this, I found some other 
2.5 dependencies besides the ternary operator fixed by this patch.  The 
one that is non-trivial is that the xml.etree.cElementTree package is 
only shipped with Python starting with 2.5 [1].

But really, I think the larger issue here is that the current libxcb 
package requires the user to build the source on their machine, by 
running what used to be a stylesheet and what now is a Python script.  I 
think it would be a lot more convenient to users if "built-source" 
libxcb packages were distributed that only contain the generated source 
code and do not require them to run the parser.  Most users just want 
the library, they don't want to play with the XML proto descriptions.

[1] http://effbot.org/zone/celementtree.htm



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