On Wednesday, 15 April 2015 at 13:06:26 UTC, weaselcat wrote:
See: python, many people actively avoid using the standard library in favor of third party libraries that accomplish the same task.
Some third party libaries are considered defacto standard and are shipped with distributions or even App Engine that only allow pure Python. But the list is small and is the result of natural selection/evolution:
https://cloud.google.com/appengine/docs/python/tools/libraries27