You'll also be happy to learn that there's an issue open to deprecate them: https://github.com/python/cpython/issues/78125 https://github.com/python/cpython/iss

You'll also be happy to learn that there's an issue open to deprecate them: https://github.com/python/cpython/issues/78125 https://github.com/python/cpython/issues/78125 It's been open since 2018 though. You might find it worth a read.