From b37ab16ba56ac6fe4e64f87521996bad323058f2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Waylan Limberg <waylan@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2013 11:49:18 -0500
Subject: Simlify importing ElementTree

As we no longer support older python versions, importing
ElementTree is much simpler. The documented way for
extensions to use etree still remains the same.
---
 markdown/etree_loader.py | 31 -------------------------------
 markdown/util.py         | 15 +++++++++++++--
 2 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 33 deletions(-)
 delete mode 100644 markdown/etree_loader.py

diff --git a/markdown/etree_loader.py b/markdown/etree_loader.py
deleted file mode 100644
index f605aa2..0000000
--- a/markdown/etree_loader.py
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,31 +0,0 @@
-
-## Import
-def importETree():
-    """Import the best implementation of ElementTree, return a module object."""
-    etree_in_c = None
-    try: # Is it Python 2.5+ with C implemenation of ElementTree installed?
-        import xml.etree.cElementTree as etree_in_c
-        from xml.etree.ElementTree import Comment
-    except ImportError:
-        try: # Is it Python 2.5+ with Python implementation of ElementTree?
-            import xml.etree.ElementTree as etree
-        except ImportError:
-            try: # An earlier version of Python with cElementTree installed?
-                import cElementTree as etree_in_c
-                from elementtree.ElementTree import Comment
-            except ImportError:
-                try: # An earlier version of Python with Python ElementTree?
-                    import elementtree.ElementTree as etree
-                except ImportError:
-                    raise ImportError("Failed to import ElementTree")
-    if etree_in_c: 
-        if etree_in_c.VERSION < "1.0.5":
-            raise RuntimeError("cElementTree version 1.0.5 or higher is required.")
-        # Third party serializers (including ours) test with non-c Comment
-        etree_in_c.test_comment = Comment
-        return etree_in_c
-    elif etree.VERSION < "1.1":
-        raise RuntimeError("ElementTree version 1.1 or higher is required")
-    else:
-        return etree
-
diff --git a/markdown/util.py b/markdown/util.py
index 12dcbd5..34333f0 100644
--- a/markdown/util.py
+++ b/markdown/util.py
@@ -1,6 +1,5 @@
 # -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
 import re
-import etree_loader
 
 
 """
@@ -42,7 +41,19 @@ RTL_BIDI_RANGES = ( (u'\u0590', u'\u07FF'),
 # Extensions should use "markdown.util.etree" instead of "etree" (or do `from
 # markdown.util import etree`).  Do not import it by yourself.
 
-etree = etree_loader.importETree()
+try: # Is the C implemenation of ElementTree available?
+    import xml.etree.cElementTree as etree
+    from xml.etree.ElementTree import Comment
+    # Serializers (including ours) test with non-c Comment
+    etree.test_comment = Comment
+    if etree.VERSION < "1.0.5":
+        raise RuntimeError("cElementTree version 1.0.5 or higher is required.")
+except (ImportError, RuntimeError):
+    # Use the Python implementation of ElementTree?
+    import xml.etree.ElementTree as etree
+    if etree.VERSION < "1.1":
+        raise RuntimeError("ElementTree version 1.1 or higher is required")
+
 
 """
 AUXILIARY GLOBAL FUNCTIONS
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