2009/3/5 Guido van Rossum <[email protected]>: > On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 2:39 AM, Stefan Behnel <[email protected]> wrote: >> And, BTW, I wouldn't mind getting lxml into the stdlib either. > > No matter how beautiful and fast lxml is, it has one downside where it > comes to installing it into the stdlib: it is based on large, complex > 3rd party libraries, libxml2 and libxslt.
And it depends on Cython, which is wonderful normally, but maybe difficult to deal with in language evolution since we wouldn't have direct control over the C sources. -- Regards, Benjamin _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
