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. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
