[Python-Dev] Rework nntlib?

[Michael Foord]

  On 14/09/2010 12:04, Senthil Kumaran wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 12:44:30PM +0200, Baptiste Carvello wrote:
>>>     Antoine>  Like the email package, nntplib in py3k is broken (because of
>>>     Antoine>  various bytes/str mismatches; I suppose the lack of a test
>>>     Antoine>  suite didn't help when porting).
>>>
>>> How heavily used is nntp these days (unless you're looking for spam)?  Would
>>> it make more sense to find someone willing to maintain it outside the Python
>>> core and just remove it altogether?
>>>
>> Reading this from GMANE ;-)
> I guess, Skip's question or intention was, how often nntplib as a
> module is being used these days to write scripts/tools or clients?
> Very rarely.
>
> It would definitely be interesting to know, if there are python
> applications out there which are using nntplib at the moment.
>
Google code search shows a *few* uses. Most occurences are projects that 
include Python sources, but there are a handful that use it. e.g. sinntp

http://sinntp.googlecode.com/hg/

Search url:

http://www.google.com/codesearch?as_q=nntplib&btnG=Search+Code&hl=&as_package=&as_lang=python&as_filename=&as_class=&as_function=&as_license=&as_case=

Of course *every* standard library module will have *some* users. The 
question is whether or not a handful of users justifies something being 
in the standard library. If it was proposed as a new package then we 
probably wouldn't want it, but as we already have it then making it 
*work* is a different matter... :-)

All the best,

Michael Foord

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