but unless you’re explicitly advocating this for every module we remove then it seems out of scope for this general discussion.
Yes this is what I’m advocating, in fact I’m explicitly advocating for the “kernel Python”, remove everything that isn’t needed for running get-pip: https://bootstrap.pypa.io/get-pip.py
Specially asyncio is a dependency that would benefit most from this promotion, currently I’m unable to run any asyncio code without either DeprecationWarnings or race conditions
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