[Python-Dev] Rework nntlib? (original) (raw)

Steve Holden steve at holdenweb.com
Wed Sep 15 05:07:27 CEST 2010

On 9/14/2010 11:06 PM, geremy condra wrote:

On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 2:22 PM, Steve Holden <steve at holdenweb.com> wrote:

On 9/14/2010 4:40 PM, Jon Ribbens wrote:

On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 11:43:46AM -0500, skip at pobox.com wrote:

We got rid of gopherlib a few years ago (deprecated in 2.5, presumably gone in 2.6). I suspect the NNTP protocol has a greatly diminished user base as well, GMANE's presence notwithstanding.

NNTP is very considerably less dead than gopher. That's an interesting metric. Would you like to list the extant libraries implementing protocols that are not "very considerably less dead than gopher"? ;-) regards Steve I ran some statistics on the number of times modules out of the stdlib got imported a few months ago and came up with a reasonably comprehensive list of the least-used things in the stdlib. For the record, since I wound up parsing import statements and know some garbage data got in, its reasonable to assume that a few otherwise valid imports aren't recorded here. But enough with the disclaimers. I'm not sure what the name of the library was originally, but the word 'gopher' does not appear in any of the imports that I was able to parse in pypi. By contrast, nntplib and poplib are tied at 8, and as would be expected there are only a few recognizable names below that- aepack, aetypes, and posixfile are each stuck at 0; fractions, Bastion, and xdrlib have three, etc. The top five are os, sys, unittest, re, and time (in that order) with 27468, 18334, 14714, 13019, and 9906 imports respectively. If it doesn't annoy I can post the whole list, or email it privately to the interested. Geremy Condra Post it to the list. If people complain, they can complain at me.

Thanks very much.

regards Steve

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