[Python-Dev] ElementTree - Why not part of the core? (fwd) (original) (raw)

Jim Fulton jim at zope.com
Thu Dec 8 21:53:17 CET 2005

Martin v. Löwis wrote:

skip at pobox.com wrote:

Passing along from c.l.py. I think ElementTree is the poster child for best-of-breed code belonging in the standard distribution. That's primarily for the author of the software to decide, at this point. Fredrik Lundh would have to offer it for contribution first. I don't know what his current position is, but I think it is unlikely that he will contribute it: in the past, he often indicated that he a) dislikes the growth of the standard Python library, and b) dislikes forking his own branch for inclusion in another package (which would happen if he contributed one version for the standard library, and would continue to maintain the code outside of Python also).

Ooh. Well said. I agree with both of these points. :)

+1

That said, I agree that ElementTree would be a valuable addition to the Python library, and has certainly passed the "collect feedback in the real world" test.

I hope that packaging progress will someday make it matter much less whether something is in the standard library.

Jim

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