Conversely, the standard library gains a modernized tomllib (TOML parsing) upgrade and enhanced pathlib capabilities, allowing for purely object-oriented filesystem manipulation without falling back to os or shutil for complex operations like recursive copying with progress callbacks.
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True to form, this release sees the removal of several "dead batteries." Following the precedent set in 3.13, deprecated modules that have been maintained solely for backward compatibility are finally removed from the standard library. This includes legacy audio modules and older networking interfaces that have been superseded by PyPI packages. python release november 27 2025