Paul> There are maybe a half dozen plausible candidates. The first Paul> thing to do is ask the authors whether they'd WANT their framework Paul> to be shipped with Python. If exactly one says yes, that makes Paul> the choice simple. Either way, that question should narrow it Paul> down some.
Even your technique narrows the list of candidates down to one, that doesn't solve the problem. There is a certain "stamp of approval" implicit with inclusion in the standard library. It's thus a fairly important decision to get at least approximately right. Skip -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list