The Python docs say it's part of the built-in standard library, not that it's literally there and in scope by default. We learned the value of modularity decad

The Python docs say it's part of the built-in standard library, not that it's literally there and in scope by default. We learned the value of modularity decades ago. This is a sign of Fortran's age, not a good thing. Very few modern languages that aren't heavily domain-specific will have more than a bare minimum of functions in scope by default without needing to import them or a module containing them. The only relatively counterexample I can think of is PHP, and even it's grown namespaces over the years.