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Daniel Shahaf <report@bugs.python.org> wrote:
> Is there a requirement that it loads a particular module?  Would etree
> users notice the difference if pickle.load() returns an instance of the
> "other" Element implementation than the one they pickled?

Yes: If you send an "_elementtree.Element" pickle to another machine that
doesn't have a working C version, it can't be unpickled. As far as I know
the only way around that is to pickle as "xml.etree.ElementTree.Element".