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At the end of September, Victor Stinner reported
on a security bug
fix he had been working on for a script from the CPython
Tools/scripts directory. As part of that work, he realized
that there were 74 scripts in that directory that were potentially
outdated, unused, unmaintained, trivial, buggy, or some combination of all
of those. It
is not uncommon for projects to have code that accretes in overlooked
corners of the source tree, but it makes sense to periodically take a look
to see if changes are needed. Stinner seems to have kicked that off for Python
with his message.