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[Python-Dev] PEP 594: update 1

Guido van Rossum guido at python.org
Wed May 22 10:07:21 EDT 2019 
Christian,

Please don't touch nntplib.

Also I think telnetlib should stay.

On Wed, May 22, 2019 at 5:44 AM Berker Peksağ <berker.peksag at gmail.com>
wrote:

> On Tue, May 21, 2019 at 7:11 PM Christian Heimes <christian at python.org>
> wrote:
> >
> > On 21/05/2019 17.31, Antoine Pitrou wrote:
> > >
> > > As I said, if the main annoyance with nntplib is the sporadic test
> > > failures, then the relevant tests can be disabled on CI.
> > >
> > > NNTP itself is still used, even if less and less.
> >
> > I don't like the idea to drop a third of the test cases for nntplib --
> and the 30% that actually test that Python's NNTP library can talk to an
> actual NNTP server. IMHO it's more beneficial for core development and for
> nntplib to have it maintained by somebody that cares about the library.
>
> https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/9461 should fix most of the
> annoyances with test_nntplib. It uses a local server instead of an
> external one.
>
> --Berker
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