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 An initiative to remove outdated and unmaintained modules ...

Learn which Python standard library modules are headed for the boneyard in Python 3.13, and how to replace them. Python’s been around in one form or another for over 30 years. Over that time, it has ...

Python is a concise, elegant language. And part of what makes it so accessible and fun to use is the library of prebuilt code—known as the Python standard library—that’s distributed along with the ...

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 ...

The Python standard library ipaddress also suffers from the critical IP address validation vulnerability identical to the flaw that was reported in the "netmask" library earlier this year. The ...

The official Python team established PEP 751. This specifies the dependencies of packages for an application. This makes installations reproducible without users having to re-determine the ...