The last couple years also saw a stringent approach to deprecations: If something is marked as deprecated, it WILL be removed in a minor release sooner than later.
Yep. They’ve primarily (entirely?) involved removing ancient libraries from stdlib, usually with links to maintained 3rd party libraries. People who can’t/won’t upgrade to newer Pythons, perhaps because their old system that uses those old modules can’t run a newer one, aren’t affected. People using newer Pythons can replace those modules.
There may be a person in the world panicking that they need to be on Python 3.13 and also need to parse Amiga IFF files, but it seems unlikely.
I mean the stdlib is open source too, so you could always vendor deprecated stdlib modules. Most of them haven't changed in eons either so the lack of official support probably doesn't change much.
There may be a person in the world panicking that they need to be on Python 3.13 and also need to parse Amiga IFF files, but it seems unlikely.