Feature deprecations are often controversial, but many projects find it necessary, or desirable, to lose some of the baggage that has accreted over time. A mid-November request to get rid of three ...

I can't stand this. If I'm looking through source code and I see an unfamiliar function, I want the Python Standard Library documentation to document it. Absolutely add a note that it's deprecated but ...

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 An initiative to remove outdated and unmaintained modules ...