Why is etree module from xml missing?

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Wrote a custom script hooking into mitmproxy/web which is working just fine but there is some xml processing I need to do and xml.etree.ElementTree is optimal for this but not available from your compiled binary. I am running this on Ubuntu 16.04 and using mitmproxy 4.0.3

Mitmproxy: 4.0.1 binary
Python: 3.6.3
OpenSSL: OpenSSL 1.1.0h 27 Mar 2018
Platform: Linux-4.4.0-127-generic-x86_64-with-debian-stretch-sid

On mitmproxy startup I get the following error:

mitmweb --ssl-insecure -v -s body_saver.py
/bin/sh: /tmp/_MEIyrqk9r/libtinfo.so.5: no version information available (required by /bin/sh)
Web server listening at http://127.0.0.1:8081/
Loading script body_saver.py
in script body_saver.py: cannot import name ‘etree’
Proxy server listening at http://*:8080

…
import os
import json

from xml import etree <- this import causes the failure
…

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Hi,

Our binaries only contain parts of Python’s stdlib to save space. If you need additional modules, you need to install mitmproxy via pip or from source: https://docs.mitmproxy.org/stable/overview-installation/

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And to build it requires python 3.6? Is that correct?