[nknight]

> 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.

[jamesgeck0]

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/