[Python-Dev] folding cElementTree behind ElementTree in 3.3

[Florent]

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.


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Florent Xicluna