Subject: Re: [bug#33565] [PATCH] gnu: Add python-xmltodict.

From: [email-masked] (Ludovic Courtès)
Date: Tue, 04 Dec 2018 09:47:16 +0100

Hi!

Oleg Pykhalov <[email-masked]> skribis:

> [email-masked] (Ludovic Courtès) writes:
>
>> Oleg Pykhalov <[email-masked]> skribis:
>>
>>> * gnu/packages/xml.scm (python-xmltodict, python2-xmltodict): New variables.
>>
>> [...]
>>
>>> +    (home-page "https://github.com/martinblech/xmltodict")
>>> +    (synopsis "Work with XML like you are working with JSON")
>>> +    (description "This package provides a Python library to work with XML like
>>> +you are working with JSON")
>>
>> Could you expound a bit on what this means (I’m curious!) and add a
>> period?
>
> It's a quote from the home page. :-) But in reality this Python library
> converts input string which contains XML to an OrderedDict object which
> looks like a JSON.  Queries for data inside OrderedDict feels (I guess)
> like you're working with JSON.  Maybe we should change a description to
> “This package provides a Python library to convert XML to OrderedDict.”,

@code{OrderedDict} even.  :-)

LGTM with this change, thank you!

Ludo’.