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[Python-Dev] PEP 594: Removing dead batteries from the standard library

Christian Heimes christian at python.org
Tue May 21 04:15:05 EDT 2019 
On 21/05/2019 02.16, Inada Naoki wrote:
> I use fileinput for several times per year.
> 
> fileinput is handy tool to write single script file to analyze log files.
> 
> * In such tools, I don't need real argument parser.
> * Some log files are compressed and some are not.
>   It seems argparse doesn't support transparent decompression.
> * I don't want to use 3rd party library for such single script files.

OK, let's keep it. I was under the impression that it's not used.

Christian
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