# Remove outdated Tools/scripts/ scripts

**URL:** https://discuss.python.org/t/remove-outdated-tools-scripts-scripts/19571
**Category:** Core Development
**Created:** [September 29, 2022, 2:17pm UTC](https://discuss.python.org/t/remove-outdated-tools-scripts-scripts/19571 "2022-09-29T14:17:12Z")
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#### Post date: [September 30, 2022, 3:47pm UTC](https://discuss.python.org/t/remove-outdated-tools-scripts-scripts/19571/22 "2022-09-30T15:47:48Z")

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> [@vstinner](#):
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> If some scripts are useful, maybe the code should be moved into the stdlib?

I’d be surprised if there was much in Tools/scripts worth moving to the stdlib.

> [@vstinner](#):
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> Or should we move these scripts to a separated project/Git repository?

> [@mwichmann](#):
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> Just as a kind of data point, a “mature” (20+ yrs) project (written in Python) I work on has been moving old snippets of this nature off into a separate repository of unsupported tools and tricks, and out of the main repo where it might end up getting distributed with the project and considered something that needs supporting.

+1

After a quick scan through [https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/97675](https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/97675), it seems like at least some of these scripts are useful still (whether for getting something specific done or as good example code), even if CPython doesn’t need them. It would be good to preserve them publicly (other than in git history) _before_ removing them from Tools/scripts.

How much work would it be to create a new repo (“old-scripts”?) under [Python · GitHub](https://github.com/python) where we would add these scripts? Would there be any downsides?

(If possible, it would be nice if we could preserve git history too. Is that hard to do?)

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