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 An initiative to remove outdated and unmaintained modules ...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

The Python standard library ipaddress also suffers from the critical IP address validation vulnerability identical to the flaw that was reported in the "netmask" library earlier this year. The ...

Python is so often the right tool for the job because of its simplicity – an aspect of the language dating back to its very founding. This same flexibility makes Python ideal for use by beginners, ...