diff --git a/moose-core/AUTHORS b/moose-core/AUTHORS
index 565695af709d18d0db50b9bd0e1662ddcd5e30aa..9881154c6c6599718501ccc240653881aff4d44f 100644
--- a/moose-core/AUTHORS
+++ b/moose-core/AUTHORS
@@ -1,17 +1,17 @@
-# Active developers
-
-Upinder S. Bhalla 	Primary Architect, rdesigneur
-HarshaRani. G.V         MOOSE Website, SBML support, GUI
-Dilawar Singh    	Multithreading, GSoC, Packaging, Maintenance, BOOST solvers
-
-# Past developers
-
-Subhasis Ray 	        Python interface, GUI
-Niraj Dudani 	        Neuronal solver
-Aditya Gilra 	        NeuroML support
-Aviral Goel 	        Moogli
-
-# Contributors
-
-Padraid Gleeson         NeuroML2 support
-Dharma Teja 	        GPU parallelization using CUDA
+ElementTree/ElementTree/g
+ElementTree/ElementTree/g
+ElementTree/ElementTree/g
+ElementTree/ElementTree/g
+ElementTree/ElementTree/g
+ElementTree/ElementTree/g
+ElementTree/ElementTree/g
+ElementTree/ElementTree/g
+ElementTree/ElementTree/g
+ElementTree/ElementTree/g
+ElementTree/ElementTree/g
+ElementTree/ElementTree/g
+ElementTree/ElementTree/g
+ElementTree/ElementTree/g
+ElementTree/ElementTree/g
+ElementTree/ElementTree/g
+ElementTree/ElementTree/g
diff --git a/moose-core/python/moose/neuroml/ChannelML.py b/moose-core/python/moose/neuroml/ChannelML.py
index d658bddf5b27578572d1a2de35bb89a4d1f87e37..60a566fdfb7fa6edd5b51dbb6d10e20081d6117a 100644
--- a/moose-core/python/moose/neuroml/ChannelML.py
+++ b/moose-core/python/moose/neuroml/ChannelML.py
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ readChannelML(...) / readSynapseML to load from an xml.etree xml element (could
 """
 
 from __future__ import print_function
-from xml.etree import cElementTree as ET
+from xml.etree import ElementTree as ET
 import string
 import os, sys
 import math
diff --git a/moose-core/python/moose/neuroml/MorphML.py b/moose-core/python/moose/neuroml/MorphML.py
index b89f76e9aa99f696327794f01c74f691cd9ff84c..0a5d0c156a25fc7977a6fa584f15797589130431 100644
--- a/moose-core/python/moose/neuroml/MorphML.py
+++ b/moose-core/python/moose/neuroml/MorphML.py
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ have already been loaded under that same name in /library in MOOSE (use ChannelM
 """
 
 from __future__ import print_function
-from xml.etree import cElementTree as ET # cELementTree is mostly API-compatible but faster than ElementTree
+from xml.etree import ElementTree as ET # cELementTree is mostly API-compatible but faster than ElementTree
 import string
 import sys
 import math
diff --git a/moose-core/python/moose/neuroml/NetworkML.py b/moose-core/python/moose/neuroml/NetworkML.py
index b400ce23088f3d56ade2ff155f1490289422ab2a..d7f30692eb11115bf00e9d2fdd59d760b16c7e8b 100644
--- a/moose-core/python/moose/neuroml/NetworkML.py
+++ b/moose-core/python/moose/neuroml/NetworkML.py
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ readNetworkML(...) to load from an xml.etree xml element (could be part of a lar
 """
 
 from __future__ import print_function
-from xml.etree import cElementTree as ET
+from xml.etree import ElementTree as ET
 import string
 import os
 from math import cos, sin
diff --git a/moose-core/python/moose/neuroml/NeuroML.py b/moose-core/python/moose/neuroml/NeuroML.py
index e558f443002774ff2704b282a65f552871738574..ceddf21d811b33e77f2828a269a3942b15c65085 100644
--- a/moose-core/python/moose/neuroml/NeuroML.py
+++ b/moose-core/python/moose/neuroml/NeuroML.py
@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ In [3]: moose.neuroml.loadNeuroML_L123('Generated.net.xml')
 from __future__ import print_function
 import moose
 from moose.utils import *
-from xml.etree import cElementTree as ET
+from xml.etree import ElementTree as ET
 from moose.neuroml.ChannelML import ChannelML
 from moose.neuroml.MorphML import MorphML
 from moose.neuroml.NetworkML import NetworkML
diff --git a/moose-core/python/moose/neuroml/utils.py b/moose-core/python/moose/neuroml/utils.py
index 95d3569407853140983a290fb5b755ad41079870..5c792c08eef49fe46d8c13b19feb6fe42ec796f9 100644
--- a/moose-core/python/moose/neuroml/utils.py
+++ b/moose-core/python/moose/neuroml/utils.py
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ indent(...) is an in-place prettyprint formatter copied from http://effbot.org/z
 """
 
 from __future__ import print_function
-from xml.etree import cElementTree as ET
+from xml.etree import ElementTree as ET
 from xml.etree import ElementTree as slowET
 import math
 import os
@@ -40,10 +40,10 @@ slowET._namespace_map[cml_ns] = 'cml'
 slowET._namespace_map[meta_ns] = 'meta'
 slowET._namespace_map[xsi_ns] = 'xsi'
 
-### cElementTree is much faster than ElementTree and is API compatible with the latter,
+### ElementTree is much faster than ElementTree and is API compatible with the latter,
 ### but instead of _namespace_map above, use register_namespace below ...
 ### but this works only with python2.7 onwards, so stick to above,
-### with import elementtree.ElementTree alongwith importing cElementTree as at
+### with import elementtree.ElementTree alongwith importing ElementTree as at
 ### http://dev.blogs.nuxeo.com/2006/02/elementtree-serialization-namespace-prefixes.html
 #ET.register_namespace('neuroml',neuroml_ns)
 #ET.register_namespace('nml',nml_ns)
diff --git a/moose-core/python/rdesigneur/rdesigneur.py b/moose-core/python/rdesigneur/rdesigneur.py
index aa5b3fce4b5513a3579fae9e365687e7f24c6ce3..ba1515fc8713ed22c629c4c1b2aed0946263b34c 100644
--- a/moose-core/python/rdesigneur/rdesigneur.py
+++ b/moose-core/python/rdesigneur/rdesigneur.py
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ from moose.fixXreacs import fixXreacs
 from moose.neuroml.NeuroML import NeuroML
 from moose.neuroml.ChannelML import ChannelML
 
-# In python3, cElementTree is deprecated. We do not plan to support python <2.7
+# In python3, ElementTree is deprecated. We do not plan to support python <2.7
 # in future, so other imports have been removed.
 try:
   from lxml import etree