[Python-3000] Proposal: No more standard library additions

[Fredrik Lundh]

Antoine wrote:

>> The standard library is not about easeness of installation. It is about
>> having
>> a consistent fixed codebase to work with. I don't want to go Perl/CPAN,
>> where you have 3-4 alternatives to do thing A which will never
>> interoperate
>> with whatever you chose among the 3-4 alternatives to do thing B.
>
> Currently in Python:
> http://docs.python.org/lib/module-xml.dom.html
> http://docs.python.org/lib/module-xml.dom.minidom.html
> http://docs.python.org/lib/module-xml.sax.html
> http://docs.python.org/lib/module-xml.parsers.expat.html
> http://docs.python.org/lib/module-xml.etree.ElementTree.html

those five are in no way mutually exclusive, though.

</F>