Martin v. Löwis <mar...@v.loewis.de> added the comment:

In case it isn't clear from the discussion in issue8792: I'd be in favor of 
supporting extensions as long as their usage is an opt-in feature. The current 
nil support is already an opt-in feature. If alternative spellings of nil need 
to be supported, or other extensions, it might be necessary to refactor this 
extension support a bit, so that extensions can be independently be developed 
and activated.

As for Python's usage of nil: it is specified in

http://ontosys.com/xml-rpc/extensions.php

and also referenced in the Wikipedia. IMO, it would have been better if Apache 
had used the pre-existing extension, instead of coming up with its own 
(supposedly only because the pre-existing one wasn't namespace-based).

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