[Python-Dev] Leading with XML-RPC

[Fredrik Lundh]

martin wrote:
> > It might benefit from also including the sgmlop.c extension.
> 
> +1 on including this one (after fixing the bugs, that is). People want
> a "good" XML parser in Python, regardless of XML-RPC; they complain
> that expat requires an external library.
> 
> sgmlop should then go into xml.parsers.sgmlop; making sgmllib and
> xmllib use sgmlop is optional.

any reason we cannot ship a snapshot of the expat sources
with Python?  (just the necessary files, that is: three C files,
and some header files)

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