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> API 101 - there is very little cost to leaving them in That's not true as newcomers will typically bias towards bundled modules instead of 3rd party ones. If

> API 101 - there is very little cost to leaving them in That's not true as newcomers will typically bias towards bundled modules instead of 3rd party ones. If it's well accepted that the bundled modules are bad in some way then you are encouraging further use of them by leaving them in. That's real cost, and not just on the Python maintainers side of thing.

m463 7y ago
You can hide them or mark them deprecated in such a way that new scripts don't see them, but old scripts still function.
- uranusjr 7y ago
  How exactly do you distinguish new and old scripts? They are all just files from the interpreter’s perspective.
  - m463 7y ago
    that's a good question. maybe you could make it explicit for new scripts? from __past__ import cruft
CJefferson 7y ago
Just how is a beginner, or in fact anyone, supposed to go and choose the "right" 3rd party module, when it seems half the stuff in pip is either half implemented, or even just a hello world example.
- anoncake 7y ago
  An official list, containing only one library for each purpose, could solve the issue.
- kllrnohj 7y ago
  By simply asking that question you're already more likely to get a better result than if there was a known-wrong choice bundled into the standard library. But really that's just a tutorial/discovery issue, which has many solutions. And not even a skill isolated to programming - how do you pick the "right" item on Amazon to buy?