[Python-Dev] folding cElementTree behind ElementTree in 3.3 (original) (raw)

Florent florent.xicluna at gmail.com
Fri Feb 10 14:03:10 CET 2012

2012/2/10 Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com>:

Most orphan modules in the stdlib aren't like that - yes, their APIs stagnate (because nobody feels they have the authority and/or expertise to make potentially controversial decisions), but for many of them, that's not a particularly bad thing.

You're right, and sometimes a contributor steps in and propose a PEP to move things forward for a so-called orphan module. If I'm not wrong, it was the case for StringIO, pickle, distutils, wsgiref and optparse even if each of these packages has its own story.

-- Florent Xicluna

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