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Re:Python 3.4.0 released by maxerickson on Monday March 17, 2014 @08:39PM (#7419166)
I think it intentionally started with things that people would tend to implement slightly incorrectly (rather than reaching for a 3rd party library).
Re:Python 3.4.0 released by e12e on Monday March 17, 2014 @10:14PM (#7419584)
Indeed, AFAIK this is the relevant pep:

http://legacy.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0450/

Note especially the pitfalls highlighted around naive diy solutions (not sure if this is actually taken care of in the module, but I hope so! :-).