At 05:32 PM 2/23/2010 -0500, Tarek Ziadé wrote:
2/ the work done in 2.7 so far was following the usual deprecation process for relocated APIs or removed APIs, but nothing for misplaced import statements. We did discuss this in the past and said it was fine this way.
Btw, imports from distutils.core *are* API; its docstring describes it as "The only module that needs to be imported to use the Distutils". It's supposed to be a one-stop shop for importing common things needed by setup scripts, including the errors, Extension, Command, Distribution, etc.
So, the unused imports in distutils.core are not "misplaced import statements", nor is there a good reason (AFAICT) for changing the API to require the average setup script author to remember which module to import things from. There should be only one obvious way to do it, and right now, the one obvious way to import things in a setup script is from distutils.core.
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