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Re:Python finally offloads some batteries by Dunedan on Friday March 18, 2022 @07:17AM (#30720726)
Good, but let's talk about the other side of things: Features missing from Python's standard library.

Here are some features I miss regularly and I believe should be part of the standard library:

- support for modern compression algorithms (e.g. brotli, zstandard)

- support for modern hashing algorithms (e.g. argon2, bcrypt)

- support for parsing ISO 8601 date times with "Z" as timezone designator

- a TTL-cache implementation (like cachetools offers)

- support for reading/writing YAML

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Re:Python finally offloads some batteries by Nasreddin_Hodja on Saturday March 19, 2022 @07:36PM (#30738560)
> Features missing from Python's standard library.

PHP's base_convert() equivalent.

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Re:Python finally offloads some batteries by zitterbewegung on Friday March 18, 2022 @08:18AM (#30721225)
The best way to talk about this is to make a PEP about it.
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