[Python-Dev] PEP 594: Removing dead batteries from the standard library

Simon Cross hodgestar+pythondev at gmail.com
Mon May 20 18:41:19 EDT 2019


Woot. +100 on this PEP.

> If the stdlib didn't have NNTP support, obviously nobody would suggest
> adding it nowadays.

Perhaps this is a good reason to keep nntplib in the deprecation list?
Another question is "are there any places using nntplib where `pip install
nntplib`" is not an reasonable option? There's quite a lot of time before
3.10 to move nntplib into an outside package.
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