Removing dead batteries from the standard library

Date: 3/20/2022 · Tags: #python, #news

Python has famous "batteries included" philosophy for its rich standard library modules, but there are lots of modules have been oudated or inactive for past years. With acceptance of [PEP 594], serveral modules will be marked as DeprecationWarning from Python 3.11 and be removed from Python 3.13, and Python on mobile platforms like BeeWare or WebAssembly (e.g. pyodide) also will benefit from reduced download size.

Part of proposed modules: cgi, crypt, smtpd, telnetlib, ...

PEP 594 – Removing dead batteries from the standard library