Hello,<br><br>I am not sure of what you propose. Do you want to get the feature back in Python 3.7.1? If yes, should it start to emit a deprection warning?<br><br>Did you manage to workaround the removal? If yes, maybe we can add more doc to the Porting section of What&#39;s New in Python 3.7?<br><br>Victor<br><br>Le jeudi 5 juillet 2018, Alexander Belopolsky &lt;<a href="mailto:alexander.belopolsky@gmail.com">alexander.belopolsky@gmail.com</a>&gt; a écrit :<br>&gt; I started porting my project [1] to Python 3.7 and came across bpo-29218:<br>&gt;<br>&gt; &quot;The unused distutils install_misc command has been removed.&quot;  [2]<br>&gt;<br>&gt; Historically, the distutils package was very conservative about changes because many 3rd party packages extended it in ways unforeseen by the Python core developers.  As far as I can tell, this removal was done without a deprecation period or any public discussion.<br>&gt;<br>&gt; The comment above the command class [3] was there for 18 years and promised to &quot;keep it around for the time being.&quot;  Why did it suddenly become necessary to remove it in 3.7?  Is shedding 20 lines of code really worth the risk of breaking user code?<br>&gt;<br>&gt; [1]: <a href="https://github.com/KxSystems/pyq">https://github.com/KxSystems/pyq</a><br>&gt; [2]: <a href="https://docs.python.org/3/whatsnew/3.7.html#api-and-feature-removals">https://docs.python.org/3/whatsnew/3.7.html#api-and-feature-removals</a><br>&gt; [3]: <a href="https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/aae45f93e7b7708deb1ce9d69b58fa029106613d">https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/aae45f93e7b7708deb1ce9d69b58fa029106613d</a><br>&gt;