Issue 42993: doc xml.etree.ElementTree.ElementTree.write does not mention attribute order

Issue42993

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Created on 2021-01-21 21:13 by buhtz, last changed 2021-01-21 21:13 by buhtz.

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msg385448 - (view)	Author: Christian Buhtz (buhtz)	Date: 2021-01-21 21:13
The docs for 'xml.etree.ElementTree.ElementTree.write' in Python 3.7 (and possible earlier) does not say a word about the ordering of the attributes. This makes unittesting hard. But looking in the code tells me that the attributes are ordered lexically. Important to know. So please upgrade the docu about that. In Python 3.8 the ordering behavior changed again but is mentioned in the docu. So no need to change in 3.8 or later.

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msg385448 - (view)

Author: Christian Buhtz (buhtz)

Date: 2021-01-21 21:13

The docs for 'xml.etree.ElementTree.ElementTree.write' in Python 3.7 (and possible earlier) does not say a word about the ordering of the attributes.

This makes unittesting hard.

But looking in the code tells me that the attributes are ordered lexically. Important to know. So please upgrade the docu about that.

In Python 3.8 the ordering behavior changed again but is mentioned in the docu. So no need to change in 3.8 or later.

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Date	User	Action	Args
2021-01-21 21:13:02	buhtz	create