An initiative to remove outdated and unmaintained modules from Python’s standard library has been approved as Python Enhancement Proposal (PEP) 594. The modules being pruned are all antiquated ...

Learn which Python standard library modules are headed for the boneyard in Python 3.13, and how to replace them.

Python 3 deprecated __cmp__ () in favor of these new methods, so functools provides tools to make it easier to write Python 2 classes that comply with the new comparison requirements in Python 3. Rich ...

When I offered to review Python Standard Library, I expected to find a dull list of library functions with dry descriptions of their arguments. I was pleasantly surprised, though, when I started ...