Metadata-Version: 2.4
Name: lxml
Version: 7.0.0a3
Summary: Powerful and Pythonic XML processing library combining libxml2/libxslt with the ElementTree API.
Home-page: https://lxml.de/
Author: lxml dev team
Author-email: lxml@lxml.de
Maintainer: lxml dev team
Maintainer-email: lxml@lxml.de
License: BSD-3-Clause
Project-URL: Source, https://github.com/lxml/lxml
Project-URL: Bug Tracker, https://bugs.launchpad.net/lxml
Classifier: Development Status :: 3 - Alpha
Classifier: Intended Audience :: Developers
Classifier: Intended Audience :: Information Technology
Classifier: Programming Language :: Cython
Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 3
Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 3.9
Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 3.10
Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 3.11
Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 3.12
Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 3.13
Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 3.14
Classifier: Programming Language :: C
Classifier: Operating System :: OS Independent
Classifier: Topic :: Text Processing :: Markup :: HTML
Classifier: Topic :: Text Processing :: Markup :: XML
Classifier: Topic :: Software Development :: Libraries :: Python Modules
Requires-Python: >=3.9
License-File: LICENSE.txt
License-File: LICENSES.txt
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Provides-Extra: html5
Requires-Dist: html5lib; extra == "html5"
Provides-Extra: htmlsoup
Requires-Dist: BeautifulSoup4; extra == "htmlsoup"
Provides-Extra: html-clean
Requires-Dist: lxml_html_clean; extra == "html-clean"
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lxml is a Pythonic, mature binding for the libxml2 and libxslt libraries.
It provides safe and convenient access to these libraries using the
ElementTree API.

It extends the ElementTree API significantly to offer support for XPath,
RelaxNG, XML Schema, XSLT, C14N and much more.

To contact the project, go to the `project home page <https://lxml.de/>`_
or see our bug tracker at https://launchpad.net/lxml

In case you want to use the current in-development version of lxml,
you can get it from the github repository at
https://github.com/lxml/lxml .  Note that this requires Cython to
build the sources, see the build instructions on the project home page.

7.0.0a3 (2026-06-16)
====================

Features added
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* ``.find()`` and ``.findall()`` now take advantage of their read-locked tree
  to skip tree modification checks, making them visibly faster.

* Python Element proxy instantiation was tuned another bit to shave off more of the
  performance disadvantages added by tree locking.

* The path compilation cache used by ElementPath uses an LRU eviction scheme.
  It previously just cleared the whole cache when overflowing.

Bugs fixed
----------

* Attribute iteration now remembers a safe integer index instead of a tree attribute pointer
  that is potentially subject of user side modifications.  This may make attribute iteration
  slightly slower for long sequences of attributes but allows for attribute manipulation
  between iteration steps, giving similar iteration+manipulation semantics as Python lists.

* Several issues (race conditions, memory leaks on error handling, crashes)
  were found via an automated review and subsequently resolved.
  Review contributed by devdanzin.


