Re: [Python-Dev] Deprecated xmllib module

2004-12-13 Thread M.-A. Lemburg
Martin v. Lwis wrote: As for PEP 4: I don't know whether it needs to be listed there. It appears that the PEP is largely unmaintained (I, personally, do not really maintain it). So one option would be to just stop using PEP 4 for recording deprecations, since we now have the warnings module. If we

Re: [Python-Dev] Deprecated xmllib module

2004-12-06 Thread Eirik Mikkelsen
On Sun, 2004-12-05 at 18:54 +0100, Martin v. Löwis wrote: I think it would be better to *remove* the xmllib documentation. Existing code which needs the module will continue to work even without documentation, and new code is unlikely to be written for a module that has no documentation, and

Re: [Python-Dev] Deprecated xmllib module

2004-12-06 Thread Bill Janssen
* The average quality of the library improves as we take out junk (the tzparse module for example) and put in high quality modules like logging, csv, decimal, etc. Yes and no. The added modules have to be relevant to what users want to do. While (relatively) minor stuff like csv and decimal

Re: [Python-Dev] Deprecated xmllib module

2004-12-06 Thread Bill Janssen
Statements like this are pretty common, but there's no evidence (that I've ever seen pointed to) that someone has *measured* how many people want modules for X. I almost didn't send this in, because I figured someone would have to argue with it. If there are that many people that want (e.g.)

RE: [Python-Dev] Deprecated xmllib module

2004-12-06 Thread Tony Meyer
As far as I can tell, there are no CSS or XML 1.1 parsers for Python, period. This belongs on c.l.p, I suppose, but the first page of google results includes: http://www.python.org/pypi?:action=displayname=TG%20CSS%20Toolsversion=1. 0a1 http://cthedot.de/cssutils/ =Tony.Meyer

Re: [Python-Dev] Deprecated xmllib module

2004-12-05 Thread Martin v. Löwis
Raymond Hettinger wrote: * Deprecated modules just get moved to the lib-old directory. If someone has ancient code relying on the module, it is a somewhat trivial maintenance step to add lib-old to their PYTHONPATH. IOW, I fail to see the harm. I have never considered this as an official policy.