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Python 3.13 removed 19 'dead battery' modules (PEP 594): replacement for each of pipes, crypt, audioop, uu, nntplib…

python@3.13python@3.14#python#stdlib#pep594#removals#migration
Fix

Replacements from the official 3.13 What's New:

Removed Replacement
pipes subprocess; pipes.quote -> shlex.quote()
crypt hashlib, or bcrypt / argon2-cffi / legacycrypt
audioop audioop-lts (PyPI)
aifc, chunk, sunau, xdrlib standard-aifc, standard-chunk, standard-sunau, standard-xdrlib (PyPI redistributions)
uu base64
mailcap mimetypes
nntplib pynntp
ossaudiodev pygame
spwd python-pam
imghdr, sndhdr filetype, puremagic, python-magic
cgi urllib.parse.parse_qsl, email.message, multipart
telnetlib telnetlib3, Exscript
chained classmethod descriptors wrap via __wrapped__ 
# before
import pipes; cmd = 'ls ' + pipes.quote(path)
# after
import shlex; cmd = 'ls ' + shlex.quote(path)

If the import is in a dependency, upgrade the dependency first.

Symptom

ModuleNotFoundError: No module named '<x>' on Python 3.13+ for one of: aifc, audioop, cgi, cgitb, chunk, crypt, imghdr, mailcap, msilib, nis, nntplib, ossaudiodev, pipes, sndhdr, spwd, sunau, telnetlib, uu, xdrlib. Also gone: lib2to3/2to3, tkinter.tix, locale.resetlocale(), typing.io/typing.re.

Cause

Deprecated in 3.11, removed in Python 3.13 (2024-10-07). 3.12 is the last version that ships them.

Verify

python3.13 -c "import yourpkg" succeeds; grep -rnwE "import (pipes|crypt|audioop|uu|imghdr|cgi|telnetlib|nntplib|lib2to3)" src/ is empty.

Sources

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