[Tutor] Shelve del not reducing file size

[Kent Johnson]

Andreas Kostyrka wrote:

> Believe me, the Python developers are sure listening. Only that
> "cleaning up the mess" has associated costs, that are usually not
> acceptable. If it comes to "not breaking existing programs" or "cleaning
> up the stdlib so it's nicer", "not breaking existing programs" is way
> higher priority. 

FWIW there is talk of some minor cleanup of the library for Python 3000:
http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-3001/
http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-3108/

These are very modest changes - primarily removing obsolete modules and 
cleaning up the names to match current conventions.

Kent