question about including something like sqlite in python

[John Salerno]

I was just thinking, since Python 3.0 is supposed to clean up a lot of 
the unnecessary or redundant features of Python and make other things 
more streamlined, does it seem to anyone that including SQLite goes 
against this goal?

This is just me thinking out loud, mind you, but it seems like including 
  a database module (especially one that many people won't use in favor 
of MySQL or PostgreSQL, etc.) is weighing down the standard library. I 
suppose the sqlite module might still be removed in 3.0, but the 
inclusion of it at all seems a little strange (and also sort of like an 
endorsement for using it).

I can see how it would be helpful to include something like hashlib, for 
example, because it streamlines the different hashing modules, and even 
ElementTree, which might be seen as the standard way to work with XML.

Anyway, I'd be curious to hear other people's thoughts about this. Maybe 
I'm looking at it the wrong way.