Oh wow, the SC accepted the latest version of PEP 594, “Removing the dead batteries from the standard library” a few days ago!
https://discuss.python.org/t/pep-594-take-2-removing-dead-batteries-from-the-standard-library/13508/22?u=pganssle
https://peps.python.org/pep-0594/
Congratulations @ChristianHeimes@twitter.com and @brettsky@mastodon.technology, and everyone who worked hard on this!
@brettsky@mastodon.technology The final list of modules to be removed looks pretty uncontroversial to me.
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@brettsky@mastodon.technology It will be interesting to see if any of these transition into being PyPI packages, and whether they will use the same name. Might be a good test run for trying out a process for moving a module out of stdlib and onto PyPI.
