Jeroen Demeyer wrote: > On 2019-07-17 02:34, Brett Cannon wrote: > > I prefer removal for ease of maintenance (people > > always want to update code even if it's deprecated), and to help make sure > > people who > > don't read the docs but discover something via the REPL or something and > > don't run with > > warnings on do not accidentally come to rely on something that's deprecated. > > I see what you mean but it doesn't really answer my question. > I was asking about a scenario where you plan on purpose a long > deprecation period because you know in advance that you cannot remove > the functionality soon (because of PEP 384 or because it's used a lot, > for example collections ABCs).
Sorry, I misread the question you were asking. Yes, I agree that even if you can't remove something for a while you should still deprecate it. _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list -- python-dev@python.org To unsubscribe send an email to python-dev-le...@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-dev.python.org/ Message archived at https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-dev@python.org/message/265QKTU3MDYMDZQ6MHZRPTELSZFURU46/
