What to use instead of nntplib?

[Mats Wichmann]

On 5/22/23 17:59, Grant Edwards wrote:
> On 2023-05-22, Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> My understanding is that nntplib isn't being erased from reality,
>> it's merely being removed from the set of modules that are provided
>> by default.
>>
>> I presume that once it's removed from the core, it will still be
>> possible to install it via pip or some other mechanism.
> 
> If somebody rescues the code and puts it in Pypi (assuming the
> copyright owner allows that). IIRC, somebody is trying to do that, but
> there some contention because Pypi won't allow the use of the name
> "nntplib" for the package because it conflicts with a library builtin.


well, it turns out that while there was a long debate about the merits, 
the actual request to free up the previously blocked name on PyPI was 
granted rather quickly, and it's there:

https://pypi.org/project/nntplib/