This (half-)month in Python and elsewhere: Python’s “dead batteries” are about to be removed—and soon. Here’s how to live without them. Also, get started with Pillow for image processing, and find out how Python’s built-in enum module makes working with named constants easier. And, if you’re trawling through Python source code with Python itself, there are better ways to do it. Old-school coder, meet the ast library.
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What you need to know about Python’s ‘dead batteries’
Goodbye to ancient, unmaintained Python standard-library modules! They’re gone as of Python 3.13, and they won’t be missed. You’ll still need to know how to live without them, though, and now is the time to find out.
Image processing in Python with Pillow
If you’ve got pictures full of hitches, Pillow (formerly the Python Imaging Library), provides a slew of modules for prettifying them programmatically.
