ElementTree - Why not part of the core?

[Giovanni Bajo]

Giovanni Bajo wrote:

> One thing I really fear about the otherwise great EasyInstall (and
> Python Eggs) is that we could forget about...

... how important is to have a standard library. The fact that it's easy to
install external modules shouldn't make us drop the standard library. A
standard library means a great uniformity across programs. Whenever I open a
Python program which uses ZipFile, or socket, or re, I can read it
*immediately*. If it uses an external library / framework, I have to go study
its manual and documentation. Proliferation of external libraries is good, but
people should normally use the standard library modules for uniformity.

In other words, I disagree with this message:
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2005-June/054102.html

My personal hope is that Python 3.0 will have a nice cleaned-up standard
library with even more features than Python 2.x. As I said the in other
message, let's not end up into the CPAN mess just because it's now technically
easier!
-- 
Giovanni Bajo