On 9/14/2010 9:36 AM, Michael Foord wrote: > On 14/09/2010 12:47, Steve Holden wrote: >> On 9/14/2010 7:10 AM, Michael Foord wrote: >>> On 14/09/2010 12:04, Senthil Kumaran wrote: >>>> On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 12:44:30PM +0200, Baptiste Carvello wrote: >>>>>> Antoine> Like the email package, nntplib in py3k is broken >>>>>> (because of >>>>>> Antoine> various bytes/str mismatches; I suppose the lack of a >>>>>> test >>>>>> Antoine> suite didn't help when porting). >>>>>> >>>>>> How heavily used is nntp these days (unless you're looking for >>>>>> spam)? Would >>>>>> it make more sense to find someone willing to maintain it outside >>>>>> the Python >>>>>> core and just remove it altogether? >>>>>> >>>>> Reading this from GMANE ;-) >>>> I guess, Skip's question or intention was, how often nntplib as a >>>> module is being used these days to write scripts/tools or clients? >>>> Very rarely. >>>> >>>> It would definitely be interesting to know, if there are python >>>> applications out there which are using nntplib at the moment. >>>> >>> Google code search shows a *few* uses. Most occurences are projects that >>> include Python sources, but there are a handful that use it. e.g. sinntp >>> >>> http://sinntp.googlecode.com/hg/ >>> >>> Search url: >>> >>> http://www.google.com/codesearch?as_q=nntplib&btnG=Search+Code&hl=&as_package=&as_lang=python&as_filename=&as_class=&as_function=&as_license=&as_case= >>> >>> >>> >>> Of course *every* standard library module will have *some* users. The >>> question is whether or not a handful of users justifies something being >>> in the standard library. If it was proposed as a new package then we >>> probably wouldn't want it, but as we already have it then making it >>> *work* is a different matter... :-) >>> >>> All the best, >>> >>> Michael Foord >>> >> How many of those uses are in Python 3? How many would break if ported >> to Python 3? > > Given that nntplib *doesn't work* with Python 3, I would guess none. :-) > Quite.
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