[Edu-sig] poly module from older Python?

[Kirby Urner]

Question:  in Python 1.5.2 I see there was a module:
poly -- Polynomials. [1]  Part of the standard library.

Wondering what happened to it, is there an easy way to
get a copy short of downloading the whole of old Python?

I'm looking for a way to generate roots of a poly.
I found Laguerre's method in Haskell [2].  Maybe there's
something similar in Python -- I'll search some more
(it's not that I haven't been looking...).

Kirby

[1] http://starship.python.net/quick-ref1_52.html

[2] http://www.numeric-quest.com/haskell/Roots.html