The plan was to mark them as deprecated for 3.11 and 3.12, and then remove them entirely in Python 3.13. As of now, those “dead batteries” (as they’ve been called) are now permanently removed.

Python, the most popular programming language today, has reached version 3.10, marking the next major release since the decade-long transition from Python 2.7. Tiobe, the compiler of a language ...