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

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**Created:** [February 4, 2022, 11:51pm UTC](https://discuss.python.org/t/pep-594-take-2-removing-dead-batteries-from-the-standard-library/13508 "2022-02-04T23:51:50Z")\
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**Post date:** [March 17, 2022, 6:08am UTC](https://discuss.python.org/t/pep-594-take-2-removing-dead-batteries-from-the-standard-library/13508/23 "2022-03-17T06:08:45Z")

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For `cgi` and `cgitb`, I just pulled these out into a separate PyPI package: [https://pypi.org/project/legacy-cgi/](https://pypi.org/project/legacy-cgi/)

I’ve got a number of old CGI scripts I’d like to keep working with future Python releases, and I imagine there’s others in the same boat. Hopefully the community can collaborate future maintenance efforts here (and I’ll keep cherry-picking from the CPython tree until it’s dropped there too).

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