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Re:Unfortunate Python by nknight on Tuesday December 20, 2011 @12:00AM (#3372363)
> I agree with the portions of this dealing in obsolete libraries (e.g. asyncore, SimpleHTTPServer, array).

The existence of third-party libraries that are arguably more featureful does not render core libraries obsolete. Handling the 80% case easily is a virtue, not a vice.

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Re:Unfortunate Python by jamesgeck0 on Tuesday December 20, 2011 @10:02AM (#3373654)
While this is a good point, it's not unusual for the third-party library to be more Pythonic and easier to use than the core lib analogue. For example, Requests.

http://docs.python-requests.org/

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