CPython's Dead Batteries

born with the words“A gift from Sam Rushing - modules asyncore and asynchat for the standard Python library. (Async socket support.)”— Guido van Rossum, 12 January 1999

Twenty-three years, ten months…rest now, finally still.

Tended by

Guido van Rossum, Andrew M. Kuchling, Victor Stinner and 16 more

Lived

23 years, 10 months, 58 commits

Died once before

moved away November 2021, brought back December 2021

Afterlife

its body lives on in Lib/test/support/asynchat.py

Laid to rest

by Nikita Sobolev: gh-72719: Remove asyncore and asynchat modules (#96580) e56e33d

Favorite offerings

asyncore collections warnings

Last words

return l

born with the words“A gift from Sam Rushing - modules asyncore and asynchat for the standard Python library. (Async socket support.)”— Guido van Rossum, 12 January 1999

Moved. Reborn. Deleted. A restless asynchronous cycle.

Tended by

Giampaolo Rodolà, Andrew M. Kuchling, Josiah Carlson and 28 more

Lived

23 years, 10 months, 169 commits

Died once before

moved away November 2021, brought back December 2021

Afterlife

its body lives on in Lib/test/support/asyncore.py

Laid to rest

by Nikita Sobolev: gh-72719: Remove asyncore and asynchat modules (#96580) e56e33d

Favorite offerings

select socket sys time warnings

Last words

self.add_channel()

Unfinished business

XXX: can return either an address pair or None

born with the words“Long ago, Guido suggested that I add this to the standard library. I'm now checking it in. I need to write some documentation for it, but I…”— Barry Warsaw, 31 January 2001

Gh-93243: Porting users was a fatal mistake for me.

Tended by

Giampaolo Rodolà, Barry Warsaw, Guido van Rossum and 23 more

Lived

21 years, 6 months, 81 commits

Died once before

moved away November 2021, brought back December 2021

Afterlife

moved to Lib/test/smtpd.py

Laid to rest

by Oleg Iarygin: gh-93243: Make smtpd private before porting its users (GH-93246) 56d16e8

Favorite offerings

sys os errno getopt time

Last words

pass

Unfinished business

XXX: currently there are no options we recognize.

born with the words“Issue #13959: Rename imp to _imp and add Lib/imp.py and begin rewriting functionality in pure Python.”— Brett Cannon, 15 April 2012

imp – born of urgency, now just dust.

Tended by

Brett Cannon, Eric Snow, Nick Coghlan and 7 more

Lived

11 years, 68 commits

Laid to rest

by Barry Warsaw: gh-98040: Remove just the `imp` module (#98573) e1f1464

Favorite offerings

_imp importlib._bootstrap importlib._bootstrap_external importlib os

Last words

load_dynamic = None

born with the words“Decided to add the telnet library that I wrote long ago (it's still in the Demos/cwilib directory). Converted comments to doc strings and u…”— Guido van Rossum, 24 December 1997

Fifteen lives touched my code – a brief connection.

Tended by

Guido van Rossum, Martin v. Löwis, R. David Murray and 22 more

Lived

25 years, 5 months, 61 commits

Laid to rest

by Victor Stinner: gh-104773: PEP 594: Remove the telnetlib module (#104778) 9dc476b

Favorite offerings

sys socket selectors time warnings

Last words

test()

born with the words“new files”— Guido van Rossum, 12 January 1995

New files no more. Seven deprecations did me in.

Tended by

Guido van Rossum, Benjamin Peterson, Senthil Kumaran and 37 more

Lived

28 years, 4 months, 166 commits

Laid to rest

by Victor Stinner: gh-104773: PEP 594: Remove cgi and cgitb modules (#104775) 08d5923

Favorite offerings

io collections.abc sys os urllib.parse

Last words

test()

Unfinished business

XXX: Shouldn't, really

born with the words“Initial check-in of cgitb. A few enhancements are pending, but this should work reliably.”— Ka-Ping Yee, 18 August 2001

Initial check-in. Gone before PEP 594 could finish.

Tended by

Georg Brandl, Guido van Rossum, Ka-Ping Yee and 15 more

Lived

21 years, 9 months, 42 commits

Laid to rest

by Victor Stinner: gh-104773: PEP 594: Remove cgi and cgitb modules (#104775) 08d5923

Favorite offerings

cgitb inspect keyword linecache os

Last words

context=context, format=format)

born with the words“* change default line numbers for 'list' in pdb.py * changed eval() into getattr() in cmd.py * added dirname(), basename() and (dummy) norm…”— Guido van Rossum, 5 November 1992

Thirty years of servers; a half-finished question remained.

Tended by

Guido van Rossum, Antoine Pitrou, Dong-hee Na and 25 more

Lived

30 years, 6 months, 86 commits

Laid to rest

by Victor Stinner: gh-104773: PEP 594: Remove the nntplib module (#104894) ded5f1f

Favorite offerings

re socket collections datetime sys

Last words

s.quit()

Unfinished business

XXX: should we raise an error? Some servers might not

born with the words“Initial revision”— Guido van Rossum, 27 May 1992

Deprecation survived; deletion did not prevail.

Tended by

Guido van Rossum, Benjamin Peterson, Serhiy Storchaka and 11 more

Lived

31 years, 28 commits

Laid to rest

by Victor Stinner: gh-104773: PEP 594: Remove the imghdr module (#104777) e399f46

Favorite offerings

os warnings sys glob

Last words

test()

born with the words“* toaiff.py: import whatsound instead of sndhdr * sndhdr.py: renamed to whatsound.py; use new aifc module for AIFF/AIFC * ftplib.py: added…”— Guido van Rossum, 1 June 1993

Twenty-nine years. Fifteen hands touched my code. Gone.

Tended by

Guido van Rossum, Fred Drake, Victor Stinner and 12 more

Lived

29 years, 12 months, 25 commits

Laid to rest

by Victor Stinner: gh-104773: PEP 594: Remove the sndhdr module (#104774) 7b00940

Favorite offerings

warnings collections aifc wave sys

Last words

test()

born with the words“aifc.py: added missing tell() method in AIFC write class; use audioop module as backup for cl module when reading or writing u-law compress…”— Sjoerd Mullender, 13 December 1993

XXX's last words: 'Must do some arithmetic...

Tended by

Serhiy Storchaka, Guido van Rossum, Sjoerd Mullender and 10 more

Lived

29 years, 5 months, 45 commits

Laid to rest

by Victor Stinner: gh-104773: PEP 594: Remove the sunau module (#104863) a5e0f5b

Favorite offerings

collections warnings builtins audioop

Last words

raise Error("mode must be 'r', 'rb', 'w', or 'wb'")

Unfinished business

XXX: must do some arithmetic here

born with the words“New module aifc to read and write AIFF-C and AIFF files. See (extensive) comments in the file for usage.”— Sjoerd Mullender, 22 January 1993

AIFF files still exist. I no longer do.

Tended by

Guido van Rossum, Sjoerd Mullender, Serhiy Storchaka and 23 more

Lived

30 years, 4 months, 92 commits

Laid to rest

by Victor Stinner: gh-104773: PEP 594: Remove the aifc module (#104933) 036da3b

Favorite offerings

struct builtins warnings math chunk

Last words

print("Done.")

born with the words“Patch/new code by Sjoerd Mullender: Separate the Chunk class out of the aifc module into a new "chunk" module.”— Guido van Rossum, 9 June 1999

Born of patches, ended by a promise – a long life.

Tended by

Guido van Rossum, Serhiy Storchaka, Fred Drake and 7 more

Lived

23 years, 11 months, 21 commits

Laid to rest

by Victor Stinner: gh-104773: PEP 594: Remove the chunk module (#104868) 77d7ec5

Favorite offerings

warnings struct

Last words

raise EOFError

born with the words“mhlib.py: delay opening of sequences file so we don't overwrite it when putsequences is called with a bad argument rfc822.py: better handli…”— Guido van Rossum, 9 September 1994

Twenty-eight years, countless revisions. Let the legacy endure.

Tended by

Guido van Rossum, Antoine Pitrou, Jack Jansen and 16 more

Lived

28 years, 8 months, 49 commits

Laid to rest

by Victor Stinner: gh-104773: PEP 594: Remove the uu module (#104932) dbc8216

Favorite offerings

binascii os sys warnings optparse

Last words

test()

born with the words“XDR interface, evolved from Demo/rpc/xdr.py by Barry.”— Guido van Rossum, 19 August 1996

Twenty-six years. A long xdr existence concluded.

Tended by

Guido van Rossum, Barry Warsaw, Martin v. Löwis and 14 more

Lived

26 years, 9 months, 34 commits

Laid to rest

by Victor Stinner: gh-104773: PEP 594: Remove the xdrlib module (#104900) 087c1a6

Favorite offerings

struct io functools warnings

Last words

return self.unpack_farray(n, unpack_item)

born with the words“Misc changes and new modules. whrandom is "objectified". SOCKET.py is moved to the sgi subdirectory.”— Guido van Rossum, 18 October 1992

Seven months after deprecation; its purpose was complete.

Tended by

Guido van Rossum, Georg Brandl, Éric Araujo and 11 more

Lived

30 years, 7 months, 29 commits

Laid to rest

by Victor Stinner: gh-104773: PEP 594: Remove the pipes module (#104848) a4b7e9d

Favorite offerings

re os tempfile warnings shlex

Last words

return cmdlist

born with the words“Initial revision”— Guido van Rossum, 30 September 1995

Initial revision. A long sleep, marked by a single commit.

Tended by

Guido van Rossum, Antoine Pitrou, Fred Drake and 11 more

Lived

27 years, 8 months, 25 commits

Laid to rest

by Victor Stinner: gh-104773: PEP 594: Remove the mailcap module (#104867) 9d457e1

Favorite offerings

os warnings re sys

Last words

test()

Unfinished business

XXX: This code should somehow check for the needsterminal flag.

born with the words“Issue #10924: Adding salt and Modular Crypt Format to crypt library.”— Sean Reifscheider, 22 February 2011

PEP 594 claimed its prize. Modular Crypt, gone.

Tended by

Brett Cannon, Christian Heimes, Victor Stinner and 5 more

Lived

12 years, 3 months, 13 commits

Laid to rest

by Victor Stinner: gh-104773: PEP 594: Remove the crypt module (#104908) e4127ea

Favorite offerings

sys _crypt errno string warnings

Last words

del _v, _add_method