A slew of obsolete modules are slated to be dropped from Python, a possible prelude to a process for keeping the standard library cleaner.

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

Learn which Python standard library modules are headed for the boneyard in Python 3.13, and how to replace them.

Python Standard Library is divided into 14 chapters, each covering a related set of modules. As the book is comprehensive there is no reason to enumerate its contents here, but the divisions are quite ...

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 is commonly used for extensibility and it can be standard to have lots of different code embedded within workflows for this purpose. Unfortunately, a lack of control when implementating Python ...