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Author skip.montanaro
Recipients BTaskaya, corona10, pauloxnet, skip.montanaro
Date 2021-10-30.12:09:23
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I'll be the wet blanket here and say -1. This doesn't seem at all necessary. 81 occurrences in ~3.5k PyPI packages? That's a hardly overwhelming endorsement. To top it off, since this can't be backported to 3.10 and earlier, it creates a needless (trivial) difference. Package authors who would like to use this but support earlier versions of Py3 will need to do something like this:

try:
    from string import ascii_alphanumerics
except ImportError:
    ascii_alphanumerics = string.ascii_letters + string.digits

They get no benefit from the addition. In fact, their code gets marginally harder to read.
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Date User Action Args
2021-10-30 12:09:23skip.montanarosetrecipients: + skip.montanaro, corona10, BTaskaya, pauloxnet
2021-10-30 12:09:23skip.montanarosetmessageid: <1635595763.79.0.672160119455.issue45669@roundup.psfhosted.org>
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