[$] Python "standard" library

Python is often mentioned in the same breath with the phrase "batteriesincluded", which refers to the breadth of its standard library. But thereis an effort underway to trim back thestandard library by removing some unloved modules. In addition, there hasbeen persistent talk of a major restructuring of the library, into a fairlyminimal core as described in Amber Brown's talkat this year's Python Language Summit, or in other ways as discussed on the python-dev mailing list inJanuary (though it has come up many times before that as well).A mid-July python-ideas mailing list thread picked up on some of that; itended up showing, once again, that there is no real consensus on what the standardlibrary is-or should be.