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

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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 "Move files from their cpython paths"

Then the rest was throwing in a pyproject.toml, README.rst, and publishing a package.

So yeah … the git history was preserved :slight_smile:

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