[Python-Dev] PEP 594: Removing dead batteries from the standard library (original) (raw)

Steve Holden steve at holdenweb.com
Tue May 21 06:02:05 EDT 2019

It's covered in "Python in a Nutshell," Alex Martelli having been a promoter of its ability simplify many utility programs for a long time.

Not that that's any guide as to what should be in 3.10, by which time we'll be four minor releases out of date anyway.

On Tue, May 21, 2019 at 9:16 AM Christian Heimes <christian at python.org> wrote:

On 21/05/2019 02.16, Inada Naoki wrote: > I use fileinput for several times per year. > > fileinput is handy tool to write single script file to analyze log files. > > * In such tools, I don't need real argument parser. > * Some log files are compressed and some are not. > It seems argparse doesn't support transparent decompression. > * I don't want to use 3rd party library for such single script files.

OK, let's keep it. I was under the impression that it's not used. Christian

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