[Python-Dev] Deprecated xmllib module (original) (raw)

Bill Janssen janssen at parc.com
Tue Dec 7 01:25:07 CET 2004

* The average quality of the library improves as we take out junk (the tzparse module for example) and put in high quality modules like logging, csv, decimal, etc.

Yes and no. The added modules have to be relevant to what users want to do. While (relatively) minor stuff like csv and decimal are good ideas, of course, logging is kind of an "insider's" module.

What many more users want, however, are things like an XML parser, or a CSS parser, or a usable HTTP server, or... The fact that XML 1.1 can't be parsed with already-written Python is a big strike against.

So removing highly demanded functionality like XML parsing, and adding specialist modules such as csv, do not overall help what users see as the quality of the standard library.

Bill

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