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

André Malo nd at perlig.de
Tue May 21 07:08:49 EDT 2019


On Montag, 20. Mai 2019 23:27:49 CEST Antoine Pitrou wrote:
> NNTP is still quite used (often through GMane, but probably not only) so
> I'd question the removal of nntplib.
> 
> cgitb used to be used by some Web frameworks in order to format
> exceptions.  Perhaps one should check if that's still the case.

I concur with both of those.
There's software in production using both. (It doesn't mean it's on pypi or 
even free software).

What would be the maintenance burden of those modules anyway? (at least for 
nntp, I guess it's not gonna change).

nd
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