[XML-SIG] Expat (Was: Strange install issue)

Dinu Gherman gherman@darwin.in-berlin.de
Wed, 24 Jul 2002 21:24:51 +0200


Martin v. Loewis:

> There really is no XML parser in the standard Python
> distribution. Python offers the pyexpat module, but does not (yet)
> include Expat itself. So you need an Expat installation first.

Well, that's the miracle for me! Why is there no expat in standard
Python, then? If it comes with PyXML, there cannot be any licensing
issue. And then it could equally well be included in Python,
couldn't it?

Dinu