[Python-Dev] elementtree in stdlib

[Aahz]

On Thu, Apr 06, 2006, Greg Ewing wrote:
> Fredrik Lundh wrote:
>> 
>> it's not new code, and having *different* module names for the same
>> well-established library isn't very nice to anyone.
>> 
>>> Modules should have short, lowercase names, without underscores.
> 
> But if we don't start becoming stricter about the naming of things
> added to the stdlib, consistency of naming is never going to improve.
>
> Or should this wait for Py3k?

For contributions that are also maintained separately from Python, I
think compatibility with the external code has to have some importance.
I vote we wait for Py3k.
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