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?
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