An initiative to remove outdated and unmaintained modules from Python’s standard library has been approved as Python Enhancement Proposal (PEP) 594.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, unmaintained, replaced by other modules, or some combination of the above.
There is little chance a modern Python developer will need to rewrite existing apps as a result of these changes. In any case, the modules slated for elimination will not be fully removed until two years from now.
