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-rw-r--r--pym/portage/xml/metadata.py15
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/pym/portage/xml/metadata.py b/pym/portage/xml/metadata.py
index 9e1886927..3513fff6d 100644
--- a/pym/portage/xml/metadata.py
+++ b/pym/portage/xml/metadata.py
@@ -30,10 +30,19 @@
__all__ = ('MetaDataXML',)
-try:
- import xml.etree.cElementTree as etree
-except ImportError:
+import sys
+
+if sys.hexversion < 0x2070000:
+ # Our _MetadataTreeBuilder usage is incompatible with
+ # cElementTree in Python 2.6:
+ # File "/usr/lib/python2.6/xml/etree/ElementTree.py", line 644, in findall
+ # assert self._root is not None
import xml.etree.ElementTree as etree
+else:
+ try:
+ import xml.etree.cElementTree as etree
+ except ImportError:
+ import xml.etree.ElementTree as etree
import re
import xml.etree.ElementTree