New submission from Ned Deily <n...@python.org>:

The cmd module in the standard library has languished for many years.  In the 
mean time, third-party replacements for it have arisen.  Perhaps the most 
popular is cmd2 which seems to be actively maintained, provides upward 
compatibility from cmd along with many desirable new features, and is 
permissively licensed.

I suggest we consider at a minimum adding a "See also:" note referencing cmd2 
to the cmd documentation in the Standard Library document, similar to what we 
do for the third-party "requests" module in the "urllib.request" documentation.

We could be even bolder and officially deprecate "cmd" and consider closing 
open enhancement issues for it on b.p.o.




https://pypi.org/project/cmd2/
https://cmd2.readthedocs.io/

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assignee: docs@python
components: Documentation
messages: 315002
nosy: Catherine.Devlin, docs@python, lukasz.langa, ned.deily
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: Suggest third-party cmd2 module as alternative to cmd
versions: Python 3.8

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