Re: [Python-Dev] Deprecated xmllib module

[Bill Janssen]

 * The average quality of the library improves as we take out junk (the
 tzparse module for example) and put in high quality modules like
 logging, csv, decimal, etc.

Yes and no.  The added modules have to be relevant to what users want
to do.  While (relatively) minor stuff like csv and decimal are good
ideas, of course, logging is kind of an insider's module.

What many more users want, however, are things like an XML parser, or
a CSS parser, or a usable HTTP server, or...  The fact that XML 1.1
can't be parsed with already-written Python is a *big* strike against.

So removing highly demanded functionality like XML parsing, and adding
specialist modules such as csv, do not overall help what users see as
the quality of the standard library.

Bill
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Re: [Python-Dev] Deprecated xmllib module

[Bill Janssen]

 Statements like this are pretty common, but there's no evidence (that I've
 ever seen pointed to) that someone has *measured* how many people want
 modules for X.

I almost didn't send this in, because I figured someone would have to
argue with it.

 If there are that many people that want (e.g.) a CSS parser, wouldn't there
 be a 3rd party one that everyone is using that could be proposed for
 addition into the standard library?

As far as I can tell, there are no CSS or XML 1.1 parsers for Python, period.

Bill
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