Why is the ElementTree API not a part of the Python core?
I've recently been developing a script for accessing the Miva API only
to find all the core API's provided by Python for parsing XML is messy
and complicated. Many of the examples I see for parsing the data using
these API's uses a similar additional Class for collapsing the XML data
into a more manageable format.
This is clearly not following the Python-way of clean, simple code and
easy development.
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?
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Doug,
I agree with you, ElementTree is fast & pythonic.
Certainly does make sense to me.
do**********@gm ail.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?
While I fully agree that ElementTree is far more Pythonic than the
dom-based stuff in the core, this issue has been discussed on
python-dev[1]. Fredrik Lundh's response:
shipping stable versions of ElementTree/cElementTree (or PIL, or
python-doc, or exemaker, or what else you might find useful) with
official Python releases is perfectly okay.
moving the main trunk and main development over to the Python CVS is
another thing, entirely.
I think some people were hoping that instead of adding these things to
the standard library, we would come up with a better package manager
that would make adding these things to your local library much simpler.
STeVe
[1]http://www.python.org/dev/summary/2005-06-01_2005-06-15.html#reorgan ising-the-standard-library-again
Steven Bethard napisa³(a): 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?
While I fully agree that ElementTree is far more Pythonic than the
dom-based stuff in the core, this issue has been discussed on
python-dev[1]. Fredrik Lundh's response:
shipping stable versions of ElementTree/cElementTree (or PIL, or
python-doc, or exemaker, or what else you might find useful) with
official Python releases is perfectly okay.
moving the main trunk and main development over to the Python CVS is
another thing, entirely.
I think some people were hoping that instead of adding these things to
the standard library, we would come up with a better package manager
that would make adding these things to your local library much simpler.
What about more intelligent installer, that after installing core
packages, would present user a list of recommended packages in few
groups (like "markup processing", "popular RDBMS interaction", "web
frameworks", "multimedia ", etc.) and would be able to fetch and install
packages using PyPI descriptions? Unattended install with this feature
would be great.
--
Jarek Zgoda http://jpa.berlios.de/
Steven Bethard 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?
While I fully agree that ElementTree is far more Pythonic than the
dom-based stuff in the core, this issue has been discussed on
python-dev[1]. Fredrik Lundh's response:
shipping stable versions of ElementTree/cElementTree (or PIL, or
python-doc, or exemaker, or what else you might find useful) with
official Python releases is perfectly okay.
moving the main trunk and main development over to the Python CVS is
another thing, entirely.
I think some people were hoping that instead of adding these things to
the standard library, we would come up with a better package manager
that would make adding these things to your local library much simpler.
I still hope that the standard distribution will, in a not too distant future,
bundle more external libraries. as things are today, "including something
in the core" means that you have to transfer code and rights to the PSF.
as I've said many times, if the Linux folks can build distributions that con-
sists of thousands of individually maintained pieces, the Python distributors
should be able to handle a few dozen components.
</F>
Before that can happen we'll need some better management of co-existing
different versions of a package. You'll want to be able to use newer
versions of external packages without breakage in the standard library.
Steven Bethard wrote:
--snip-- I think some people were hoping that instead of adding these things to
the standard library, we would come up with a better package manager
that would make adding these things to your local library much simpler.
STeVe
[1]http://www.python.org/dev/summary/2005-06-01_2005-06-15.html#reorgan ising-the-standard-library-again
A better package manager would be great but does not
replace having things in the core. Distributed code that
relies on external packages puts a significantly greater
burden on the user of the code. I suppose there are
ways to get around it but often it means at a minimum
the user will need to read the install instructions (which
seems to be asking a lot for some people.) And at some
companies, one has to jump though beauracratic hoops
for each external package installed. And I personally
stear away from packages that have a long list of
prerequisites.
With things I've written that I thought might be used
by others, I've gone to some lengths to use only modules
in the standard library.
"Fredrik Lundh" <fr*****@python ware.com> writes: as I've said many times, if the Linux folks can build distributions that con-
sists of thousands of individually maintained pieces, the Python distributors
should be able to handle a few dozen components.
Yes, but "distribute rs" is not necessarily "maintainer s". How many
components are there in the Activestate Python distribution?
Enthoughts? Others?
The maintainers of Linux/gcc/etc. don't worry about creating a
distribution that includes lots of third party software. Why should
the maintainers of Python be any different?
<mike
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Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information.
<ru***@yahoo.co m> wrote:
... seems to be asking a lot for some people.) And at some
companies, one has to jump though beauracratic hoops
for each external package installed. And I personally
stear away from packages that have a long list of
prerequisites.
Funny -- me, I prefer to steer away from companies with lots of
bureaucracy, instead!-)
Alex do**********@gm ail.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?
I'd really like to see that too. Sure, it's fairly trivial to install
it, but each different package that needs to be installed from another
source, built and tested on multiple platforms etc, means more work.
For complex software systems, these kinds of configuration issues
take a lot of efforts.
We're deploying our software on a number of different platforms. We
certainly depend on Python, so a standard Python install will always
be included. Using standard library modules is for free. Using yet
another third party library has a cost, even if some Cheese Shop or
whatever might make the cost slightly lower.
We have very friendly configuration management guys here, so if I
insisted, I'm sure they'd let me have elementTree included, but I
hesitate to ask for it. It does add a burden on CM, increases the
risk that a deployment will fail, and from a code maintenance point
of view, it's a double edged sword: On one hand, it's a much better
API, but on the other hand, it's not documented in the standard
Python docs or in the Nutshell book, and a new developer would need
to figure out what this foreign beast was, and where to find docs.
(Alternatively, I'd have to (God forbid) document my actions. ;) This thread has been closed and replies have been disabled. Please start a new discussion. Similar topics | |
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