Victor Stinner

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cc @pitrou who converted the Python io implementation to the C io implementation in Python 3.1.

> That was a false negative ([reported here](https://discuss.python.org/t/https-github-com-python-is-now-using-a-new-cla-bot/14961/4?u=marcelm)). But I just re-did it and that seems to have fixed it. Thanks.

> Also, if we were to do it again, we would certainly have peek() return a memoryview rather than a bytes object... For a new function like BytesIO.peek(), would it...

The complicated part of a memoryview is that BytesIO can be read **and** written. How do you guarantee that the view is not going to change after peek() if a...

> You wouldn't need to guarantee anything IMHO. I prefer that when I read data form the filesystem, the data doesn't change, even if I use it 10 seconds later,...

All modules scheduled for removal by PEP 594 have been removed in Python 3.12 and Python 3.13. The last batch was done in https://github.com/python/cpython/issues/104773 especially the uu module. @CAM-Gerlach: Would...

> We need to decide on this PR and its parent issue because 3.12 release is approaching. The main branch is now Python 3.13. Honestly, IMO it's ok to keep...

Oh. I wasn't aware that the email package was using the ``binascii.a2b_uu()`` function. Is it really important to remove that feature of the email module? Maybe we can only deprecate...

While the ``uuencode`` format may no longer be used in the wild today, using the ``email`` module to parse of old archives old mailing lists or old ``Maildir`` files remain...