ElementTree - Why not part of the core?
Magnus Lycka
lycka at carmen.se
Fri Dec 9 03:43:03 EST 2005
skip at pobox.com 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?
>
> Magnus> I'd really like to see that too. Sure, it's fairly trivial to
> Magnus> install it, but each different package that needs to be
> Magnus> installed from another source, built and tested on multiple
> Magnus> platforms etc, means more work.
>
> More work than reimplementing the functionality or living with a miserable
> API (I'm thinking normal DOM APIs)?
More work for the CM people. Less work for me.
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