An initiative to remove outdated and unmaintained modules from Python’s standard library has been approved as Python Enhancement Proposal (PEP) 594.The modules being pruned are all antiquated ...

The Python standard library comes with two functions that work as stopwatches. The Time module has the perf_counter function, which calls on the operating system’s high-resolution timer to ...

A case of mistaken identity. The problem is that packages in the standard Python library should originate only from their official source, rather than being downloaded from third-party ...

Python 3.3 standard library 'ipaddress' suffers from a critical IP address vulnerability (CVE-2021-29921) identical to the flaw that was reported in the "netmask" library earlier this year.

It’s a single-file module that has no dependencies other than the Python Standard Library. Bottle APIs are created with no routing so they can be made as simple or as complex as required.

The answer is somewhere in the middle. The Python standard library comes with "multiprocessing", a module that gives the feeling of working with threads, but that actually works with processes. So in ...