On my system right now: % du -h --exclude=site-packages /usr/lib/python3.10 | tail -n1 41M /usr/lib/python3.10 The amount of savings seems to be about

On my system right now: % du -h --exclude=site-packages /usr/lib/python3.10 | tail -n1 41M /usr/lib/python3.10 The amount of savings seems to be about 0.83M: % ls -l \ **/*aifc* \ **/*asynchat* \ **/*asyncore* \ \ **/*cgi* \ **/*cgitb* \ **/*chunk* \ **/*crypt* \ **/*imghdr* \ **/*nntplib* \ **/*ossaudiodev* \ **/*pipes* \ **/*smtpd* \ **/*sndhdr* \ **/*spwd* \ **/*sunau* \ **/*telnetlib* \ **/*uu* \ **/*xdrlib* | awk '{ print $5 }' | paste -sd+ | bc 877283 This excludes the "msilib" and "nis" packages, which aren't on my system (I guess my distro excludes them?), and you should also really round up the files to the disk block size (usually 4k), so let's round it up to 1M. Is that significant? You decide. It doesn't seem all that significant to me given that the stdlib is 41M, so for space-constrained use-cases you're still not going to be able to copy/install all of the stdlib in the first place as it's still not even close to fitting on "devices with just a few hundred kilobyte of storage (e.g. BBC Micro:bit)" that the PEP mentions. I do think that removing these packages is a good idea, but "space savings" seems like a very weak argument.