[EMAIL PROTECTED] 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?
While I fully agree that ElementTree is far more Pythonic than the
dom-based stuff in the core, this issue has been discussed on
python-dev[1]. Fredrik Lundh's response:
shipping stable versions of ElementTree/cElementTree (or PIL, or
python-doc, or exemaker, or what else you might find useful) with
official Python releases is perfectly okay.
moving the main trunk and main development over to the Python CVS is
another thing, entirely.
I think some people were hoping that instead of adding these things to
the standard library, we would come up with a better package manager
that would make adding these things to your local library much simpler.
STeVe
[1]http://www.python.org/dev/summary/2005-06-01_2005-06-15.html#reorganising-the-standard-library-again
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