Removed Modules#

The modules described in this chapter have been removed from the Python standard library. They are documented here to help people find replacements.

• "aifc" --- Read and write AIFF and AIFC files

• "asynchat" --- Asynchronous socket command/response handler

• "asyncore" --- Asynchronous socket handler

• "audioop" --- Manipulate raw audio data

• "cgi" --- Common Gateway Interface support

• "cgitb" --- Traceback manager for CGI scripts

• "chunk" --- Read IFF chunked data

• "crypt" --- Function to check Unix passwords

• "distutils" --- Building and installing Python modules

• "imghdr" --- Determine the type of an image

• "imp" --- Access the import internals

• "mailcap" --- Mailcap file handling

• "msilib" --- Read and write Microsoft Installer files

• "nis" --- Interface to Sun’s NIS (Yellow Pages)

• "nntplib" --- NNTP protocol client

• "ossaudiodev" --- Access to OSS-compatible audio devices

• "pipes" --- Interface to shell pipelines

• "smtpd" --- SMTP Server

• "sndhdr" --- Determine type of sound file

• "spwd" --- The shadow password database

• "sunau" --- Read and write Sun AU files

• "telnetlib" --- Telnet client

• "uu" --- Encode and decode uuencode files

• "xdrlib" --- Encode and decode XDR data