Why is the ElementTree API not a part of the Python core? I've recently been developing a script for accessing the Miva API only to find all the core API's provided by Python for parsing XML is messy and complicated. Many of the examples I see for parsing the data using these API's uses a similar additional Class for collapsing the XML data into a more manageable format. This is clearly not following the Python-way of clean, simple code and easy development.
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? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
