Python has come a long way since it was released in 1991.

It originally released when the standard library was primarily the totality of functionality you could leverage when building your applications.

With the addition of PIP and 360,000 packages on PiPi, it is indeed a different world,

where what we need and expect from the standard library is not the

same. Brett Cannon and Christian Himes have introduced PEP 594, which is the first step in

trimming outdated and unmaintained older modules from the standard library. Join us to dive into

the history and future of Python's standard library. This is Talk Python to Me,

episode 360 recorded March 29th, 2022. Welcome to Talk Python, a weekly podcast on Python. This is your host, Michael Kennedy. Follow me on Twitter

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Thanks for everyone. Yeah. Thank you.

First time for me.

Yeah, Christian, it's great to have you here.

That's super.

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