# Remove outdated Tools/scripts/ scripts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https://discuss.python.org/t/remove-outdated-tools-scripts-scripts/19571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**Created:** [September 29, 2022, 2:17pm UTC](https://discuss.python.org/t/remove-outdated-tools-scripts-scripts/19571 "2022-09-29T14:17:12Z")\
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> [@eric.snow](#):
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> Expanding the exercise from Tools/scripts to Tools/\* makes sense. I expect we could circle back to the rest after Tools/scripts is done.

`Tools/i18n` is one of the directories that should probably be excluded if you decide to go with widening these removals to `Tools/*`. It’s mentioned in Python’s gettext documentation and one of the tools there - pygettext.py - even has some added benefits over similar tools such as xgettext - e.g. support for gettext calls inside f-strings. It uses tokenize module which is comparatively more fragile than using ast module but I would say that it still performs its purpose pretty well.

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