Jim> Would it make sense to add an attic (or even "deprecated")
Jim> directory to the end of sys.path, and move old modules there? This
Jim> would make the search for non-deprecated modules a bit faster, and
Jim> would make it easier to verify that new code isn't depending
Jim> (perhaps indirectly) on any deprecated features.
That's what lib-old is for. All people have to do is append it to sys.path
to get access to its contents:
% python
Python 2.5a0 (#72, Jan 20 2005, 20:14:27)
[GCC 3.3 20030304 (Apple Computer, Inc. build 1493)] on darwin
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import glob
>>> for f in glob.glob("/Users/skip/local/lib/python2.5/lib-old/*.py"):
... print f
...
/Users/skip/local/lib/python2.5/lib-old/addpack.py
/Users/skip/local/lib/python2.5/lib-old/cmp.py
/Users/skip/local/lib/python2.5/lib-old/cmpcache.py
/Users/skip/local/lib/python2.5/lib-old/codehack.py
/Users/skip/local/lib/python2.5/lib-old/dircmp.py
/Users/skip/local/lib/python2.5/lib-old/dump.py
/Users/skip/local/lib/python2.5/lib-old/find.py
/Users/skip/local/lib/python2.5/lib-old/fmt.py
/Users/skip/local/lib/python2.5/lib-old/grep.py
/Users/skip/local/lib/python2.5/lib-old/lockfile.py
/Users/skip/local/lib/python2.5/lib-old/newdir.py
/Users/skip/local/lib/python2.5/lib-old/ni.py
/Users/skip/local/lib/python2.5/lib-old/packmail.py
/Users/skip/local/lib/python2.5/lib-old/Para.py
/Users/skip/local/lib/python2.5/lib-old/poly.py
/Users/skip/local/lib/python2.5/lib-old/rand.py
/Users/skip/local/lib/python2.5/lib-old/statcache.py
/Users/skip/local/lib/python2.5/lib-old/tb.py
/Users/skip/local/lib/python2.5/lib-old/tzparse.py
/Users/skip/local/lib/python2.5/lib-old/util.py
/Users/skip/local/lib/python2.5/lib-old/whatsound.py
/Users/skip/local/lib/python2.5/lib-old/whrandom.py
/Users/skip/local/lib/python2.5/lib-old/zmod.py
That doesn't help for deprecated extension modules, but I think they are
much less frequently candidates for deprecation.
Skip
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