Lib/test/outstanding_bugs.py was created by:

commit c4e2a9b70ac49cdd8bcc9ca60afac20162f84f24
Author: Georg Brandl <georg@python.org>
Date:   Sun Jan 8 14:32:19 2006 +0000

    Add a test file (which isn't run by regrtest) for bugs which
    aren't fixed yet.
    
    Includes a first test (for compiler).

and has not been touched since:


commit bdce938af2af03b2eb0d0e4731f1b8c4b965eaf5
Author: Zachary Ware <zachary.ware@gmail.com>
Date:   Fri Dec 20 13:25:07 2013 -0600

    Update test.outstanding_bugs.py

diff --git a/Lib/test/outstanding_bugs.py b/Lib/test/outstanding_bugs.py
index 0849ee5885..7e527a6706 100644
--- a/Lib/test/outstanding_bugs.py
+++ b/Lib/test/outstanding_bugs.py
@@ -10,79 +10,9 @@ import unittest
 from test import support
 
 #
-# One test case for outstanding bugs at the moment:
+# No test cases for outstanding bugs at the moment.
 #
(...)


I propose to remove this file. We don't manage "outstanding bugs" this way anymore.

New changeset e21b45a8e71d06a6a03f99261cab33e72b896bb9 by Victor Stinner in branch 'master':
bpo-37472: Remove Lib/test/outstanding_bugs.py (GH-14516)
https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/e21b45a8e71d06a6a03f99261cab33e72b896bb9

I removed the file in the master branch. I don't think that it's worth it to remove it from other branches, so I just close the issue.


FYI I found this file while working on PR 14518:

commit 8f4ef3b019ce380022018587571b0f970e668de3 (upstream/master, master)
Author: Victor Stinner <vstinner@redhat.com>
Date:   Mon Jul 1 18:28:25 2019 +0200

    Remove unused imports in tests (GH-14518)