[$] (Re)moving outdated Python tools and scripts [$] (Re)moving outdated Python tools and scripts

At the end of September, Victor Stinner reported on a security bug fix he had been working on for a script from the CPython Tools/scripts directory. As part of that work, he realized that there were 74 scripts in that directory that were potentially outdated, unused, unmaintained, trivial, buggy, or some combination of all of those. It is not uncommon for projects to have code that accretes in overlooked corners of the source tree, but it makes sense to periodically take a look to see if changes are needed. Stinner seems to have kicked that off for Python with his message.



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