An initiative to remove outdated and unmaintained modules from Python’s standard library has been approved as Python Enhancement Proposal (PEP) 594 . The modules being pruned are all antiquated, unmaintained, replaced by other modules, or some combination of the above.

There is little chance a modern Python developer will need to rewrite existing apps as a result of these changes. In any case, the modules slated for elimination will not be fully removed until two years from now.

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Python has long had a “batteries included” philosophy, with the goal of providing a versatile standard library that handles many common development tasks. But criticisms have arisen in the past of how “dead batteries” in the standard library—outdated and hard-to-maintain modules—have outlasted their usefulness and ought to be removed.

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