Fredrik Lundh wrote: > Steven Bethard wrote: > > > > ElementTree on the other hand provides incredibly easy access to XML > > > elements and works in a more Pythonic way. Why has the API not been > > > included in the Python core? > > > > While I fully agree that ElementTree is far more Pythonic than the > > dom-based stuff in the core, this issue has been discussed on > > python-dev[1]. Fredrik Lundh's response: > > > > shipping stable versions of ElementTree/cElementTree (or PIL, or > > python-doc, or exemaker, or what else you might find useful) with > > official Python releases is perfectly okay. > > > > moving the main trunk and main development over to the Python CVS is > > another thing, entirely. > > > > I think some people were hoping that instead of adding these things to > > the standard library, we would come up with a better package manager > > that would make adding these things to your local library much simpler. > > I still hope that the standard distribution will, in a not too distant future, > bundle more external libraries. as things are today, "including something > in the core" means that you have to transfer code and rights to the PSF. > > as I've said many times, if the Linux folks can build distributions that con- > sists of thousands of individually maintained pieces, the Python distributors > should be able to handle a few dozen components. >
I'd like to add my vote in favour of this. There are a few popular extensions that most users would like easy access to. PIL and ElementTree both fall into this category. Thanks Fuzzyman http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python/index.shtml > </F> -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list