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 An initiative to remove outdated and unmaintained modules ...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 ...

Libraries are collections of shared code. They're common in Python, where they're also called "modules," but they're also ...

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 ...

You haven’t named your modules like Python’s standard libraries, right? Another thing regarding modules: Python comes with a wealth of amazing library modules.

Python 3.3 standard library 'ipaddress' suffers from a critical IP address vulnerability (CVE-2021-29921) identical to the flaw that was reported in the "netmask" library earlier this year.

Python recently celebrated its 30th birthday, and pioneers of the language have been reflecting on its significance as an open source project.