The roadmap was already presented by David Hewitt, maintainer of the Rust binding PyO3, in July at the Python Language Summit ...

A slew of obsolete modules are slated to be dropped from Python, a possible prelude to a process for keeping the standard library cleaner. An initiative to remove outdated and unmaintained modules ...

The Python 3 Standard Library contains hundreds of modules for interacting with the operating system, interpreter, and Internet–all extensively tested and ready to jump-start application development.

Python has always touted itself as a "batteries included" language; its standard library contains lots of useful modules, often more than enough to solve many types of problems quickly. From time to ...