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Tue 30 May 2023

What is the Standard Library for?

Overall, there was agreement that the original motivations for a large, “batteries-included” standard library no longer held up to scrutiny. “In the good old days,” Ned Deily reminisced, “We said ‘batteries-included’ because we didn’t have a good story for third-party installation.” But in 2023, installing third-party packages from PyPI is much easier.

Source: The Python Language Summit 2023: What is the Standard Library for?, an article by Alex Waygood.