PEP 594 – Removing dead batteries from the standard library
There are some things on the list that I totally get. We probably don't need support for .aif files in Python's stdlib, or support for the Sun directory service.But I hate to see these get removed:    - cgi
    - pipes
    - uu
    - telnetlib

A lot of people still use CGI. Yes, it's slow / low-performance / etc. It's also a perfectly fine way to make a knockabout internal service.Pipes is a small pure-Python module, with nothing tricky about it. Why delete it? It's good at what it does. Subprocess equivalents are a lot more effort to write, even if you can eventually get to the same result.Uu is old, yes. But it's not broken either. Folks do still uuencode things from time to time. Why delete it?Telnetlib is personally useful to me, since telnet is one of the easiest ways to interact with a qemu VM's console. I hate that the answer is "Use something on Pypi instead", because that increases my dependency surface and adds no value for me. Why delete working, stable code?