[Python-Dev] Integrate BeautifulSoup into stdlib?

[Benjamin Peterson]

2009/3/5 Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org>:
> On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 2:39 AM, Stefan Behnel <stefan_ml at behnel.de> wrote:
>> And, BTW, I wouldn't mind getting lxml into the stdlib either.
>
> No matter how beautiful and fast lxml is, it has one downside where it
> comes to installing it into the stdlib: it is based on large, complex
> 3rd party libraries, libxml2 and libxslt.

And it depends on Cython, which is wonderful normally, but maybe
difficult to deal with in language evolution since we wouldn't have
direct control over the C sources.


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Regards,
Benjamin