[$] Python "standard" library
Python is often mentioned in the same breath with the phrase "batteries
included", which refers to the breadth of its standard library. But there
is an effort underway to trim back the
standard library by removing some unloved modules. In addition, there has
been persistent talk of a major restructuring of the library, into a fairly
minimal core as described in Amber Brown's talk
at this year's Python Language Summit, or in other ways as discussed on the python-dev mailing list in
January (though it has come up many times before that as well).
A mid-July python-ideas mailing list thread picked up on some of that; it
ended up showing, once again, that there is no real consensus on what the standard
library is—or should be.