Reorganizing Python's sys module

The sys module is the primary junk drawer of the Python standard library. A good junk drawer holds miscellaneous items that don&rsquo;t have another sensible home. I often think of utils modules as &ldquo;junk drawer&rdquo; modules. I believe that both utils modules and junk drawers have their purpose, but junk drawers can get out of hand. As I recently noted in my talk about pathlib , I see both…