[Python-Dev] ElementTree in stdlib

Tue Dec 13 21:18:38 CET 2005

On Tuesday 13 December 2005 15:02, Martin v. Löwis wrote:
 > That's not true. The current xml package *is* the consensus of
 > xml-sig.
It pretty much was at the time, at any rate. It's not clear to me that the 
xml package shipped in 2.4 and several preceeding versions of Python would 
pass muster in the current XML-SIG. There's been a lot of evolution in the 
Python APIs for XML since then, and a lot of really interesting things have 
been tried with varying degrees of acceptance.
Unless the XML-SIG wants to figure it out all over again, adding xml.etree to 
the standard library is probably the best near-term improvement that can be 
made. Speaking just for myself, I think this is fine, though I agree with 
Jim that an easier-to-use package management system would go a long way to 
avoid the issues related to whether something is in the standard library.
Now, just what it means for a package management system to be easier to use 
might be harder to get us to agree on. :-)
 -Fred
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Fred L. Drake, Jr. <fdrake at acm.org>