diff -r b4553d22c163 Lib/xml/etree/ElementTree.py
--- a/Lib/xml/etree/ElementTree.py	Fri May 17 11:33:26 2013 -0500
+++ b/Lib/xml/etree/ElementTree.py	Fri May 17 13:57:49 2013 -0500
@@ -1658,8 +1658,8 @@
 
 # Import the C accelerators
 try:
-    # Element, SubElement, ParseError, TreeBuilder, XMLParser
-    from _elementtree import *
+    # XMLParser
+    from _elementtree import XMLParser as _xmlparser
 except ImportError:
     pass
 else:
@@ -1682,7 +1682,7 @@
                         parser.feed(data)
                     self._root = parser.close()
                 else:
-                    parser = XMLParser()
+                    parser = _xmlparser()
                     self._root = parser._parse(source)
                 return self._root
             finally: