Maintaining the chunk module after it has been removed from the standard library

[notatallshaw (Damian Shaw)]

Btw there was some discussion in other threads on the best way to extract modules from the standard library into a different repo, e.g.

PEP 594, take 2: Removing dead batteries from the standard library

The commands I used to start GitHub - jackrosenthal/python-cgi: Fork of the standard library cgi and cgitb modules, being deprecated in PEP-594 : git clone https://github.com/python/cpython cd cpython git filter-repo --force --path Lib/cgi.py --path Lib/cgitb.py --path LICENSE --path Doc/library/cgitb.rst --path Doc/library/cgi.rst git mv Lib/cgi.py cgi.py git mv Lib/cgitb.py cgitb.py mkdir docs git mv Doc/library/cgi.rst docs/cgi.rst git mv Doc/library/cgitb.rst docs/cgitb.rst git commit -m "M…

PEP 594 has been implemented: Python 3.13 removes 20 stdlib modules

Thanks so much for the terrific summary, Victor, and all your detailed notes! My advice—just use Git Filter-Repo. It’s officially recommended by Git itself over Git filter-branch, and is an order of magnitude (or more) faster, more powerful and easier to use. In the past I used git filter-branch and BFG (a previously popular tool for this) back when GFR was not maintained, but it was just a nightmare that took a large chunk of a day just to extract a few files in one directory. I actually fou…