Comment 5 for bug 306185

Hmm according to the last notes in python-xml:

python-xml (0.8.4-10.1ubuntu1) intrepid; urgency=low

  * Merge from debian unstable, remaining changes: (LP: #????)
    - Explicitely remove /usr/lib/python2.[345]/site-packages/_xmlplus,
      likely be left by an earlier python-central version. LP: #212917.
    - Install the files outside of sys.path, so that the package
      does not overlay the xml code as found in the core python packages.
      This package should be removed once all rdepends are gone. For
      now, packages have to add this path before the first xml import:
      sys.path.append('/usr/lib/python%s/site-packages/oldxml' %
      sys.version[:3])

Has anyone been able to get this running using the core xml and skipping python-xml?

Meantime it would be sensible to patch this to include the sys.path.append where appropriate at the start.