Remove pygame.threads

[Starbuck5]

The source file doesn't seem to have had a non-linting related update in the past 7 years, it's not documented, and a scour of Google for mentions saw no one using it. I think this is safe to remove.

Also, unlike when this module was started, the standard library now has a way to do a threaded map, in the form of ThreadPoolExecutor.

[ankith26]

I think we could deprecate it but not remove it just yet.
On a quick search I found atleast one github repo that uses it: https://github.com/pmtkachev/TMNT-Fight-NES/blob/c297f8aa9d802dc3fdbfc4b1b8726ccc95eeff97/src/game_func.py#L2

[Starbuck5]

I think we could deprecate it but not remove it just yet.
On a quick search I found atleast one github repo that uses it: https://github.com/pmtkachev/TMNT-Fight-NES/blob/c297f8aa9d802dc3fdbfc4b1b8726ccc95eeff97/src/game_func.py#L2

But they're not using the functionality! pygame.threads.Thread is a weird import of threading.Thread. They must've written thread and clicked "fix imports" and picked something from a list. No human would've written that unaided.

This is an undocumented module that hasn't made any progress towards being a real thing since pygame 1.8.1, and has never been documented anywhere. The functionality is available in the standard library now. I say we pull the plug on the inevitable and just remove it.

I don't see an undocumented experimental module that no one is actually using as being covered by any backwards compatibility concerns.

[oddbookworm]

But they're not using the functionality! pygame.threads.Thread is a weird import of threading.Thread. They must've written thread and clicked "fix imports" and picked something from a list. No human would've written that unaided.

Side note:
I created a pull request there to get rid of the weird alias and just use the real thing lol

[oddbookworm]

LGTM!

[ankith26]

Okay sure, let's remove this. Thanks for the PR 🎉