ElementTree - Why not part of the core?

[Magnus Lycka]

skip at pobox.com wrote:
>     >> ElementTree on the other hand provides incredibly easy access to XML
>     >> elements and works in a more Pythonic way.  Why has the API not been
>     >> included in the Python core?
> 
>     Magnus> I'd really like to see that too. Sure, it's fairly trivial to
>     Magnus> install it, but each different package that needs to be
>     Magnus> installed from another source, built and tested on multiple
>     Magnus> platforms etc, means more work.
> 
> More work than reimplementing the functionality or living with a miserable
> API (I'm thinking normal DOM APIs)?

More work for the CM people. Less work for me.