This moves us further in the direction of using normal unittest facilities
instead of specialized regrtest ones. Any test module that can be correctly
run currently using 'python unittest -m test.test_xxx' can now be converted to
use normal unittest test loading by simply deleting its test_main, thus no
longer requiring manual maintenance of the list of tests to run. (Not all
tests can be converted that easily, since test_main sometimes does some
additional things (such as reap_children or reap_threads). In those cases the
extra code may be moved to setUpModule/tearDownModule methods, or perhaps the
same ends can be achieved in a different way, such as moving the decorators to
the test classes that need them, etc.)
I don't advocate going through and making this change wholesale, but any time
a list of tests in test_main would otherwise need to be updated, consideration
should instead be given to deleting test_main.
Removed the useless explanation of the Element data structure that started the
documentation page. Instead, the documentation now starts with a brief tutorial
skimming some of the capabilities of the module. The tutorial can be followed
by additional topic-specific sections (such as XPath support), and eventually
by a reference that goes over the module's classes and functions, as usual.
Unlike the other facilities, we don't use a fallback for AUTHPRIV if it
doesn't exist. Because it is intended for logging sensitive log messages, it
is better that a program trying to log such messages fail than that it log
them insecurely.
Initial patch by Federico Reghenzani.
append, extend and insert now consistently type-check their argument in both
the C and Python implementations, and raise TypeError for non-Element
argument.
Added tests
Previously it would just accept the unicode, which would wind up as unicode in
the transfer-encoded message object, which is just wrong.
Patch by Jeff Knupp.
