[Python-Dev] SimpleXMLWriter missing from elementtree

[Fredrik Lundh]

Ralf Schmitt wrote:

> any chance to get SimpleXMLWriter (and other modules maybe??) getting
> included into xml.etree? Otherwise people might have to stick to the
> original elementtree, which doesn't really make sense, since most of
> elementtree already is included.

the original decision was to start with three fundamental modules, and
leave out less popular and potentially less stable modules.

leaving out SimpleXMLWriter (and perhaps the HTML stuff) might have
been a mistake, but with 2.5 in final beta, that's how things are going to be
in 2.5.

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