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Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2015 14:40:38 +1100
From: Cameron Simpson <cs@zip.com.au>
To: Skip Montanaro <skip.montanaro@gmail.com>
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On 16Feb2015 20:24, Skip Montanaro <skip.montanaro@gmail.com> wrote:
>I can't offer an explanation, but you might open an issue in the tracker
>proposing that it be removed in 3.5. If nothing else, you should get an
>authoritative-ish explanation for why it has yet to be deleted.

It may be as simple as still being in system C libraries, so people are 
reluctant to break off access to it (while still discouraging it).

Just conjecture,
Cameron Simpson <cs@zip.com.au>

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