into a stdlib module and breaking things.

Agreed — and from years of participating in this community, I don’t think the danger of adding names to stdlib modules breaking people’s monkey-patched code has been a reason not to do it.

-CHB

If someone's doing that and
their code breaks in Python 3.10, that's on them.

ChrisA
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