On Jan 23, 2020, at 14:03, Victor Stinner <vstin...@python.org> wrote: > > I'm not sure of the meaning of "buried" here. What do you mean? We > propose to revert 5 changes: > > * Removed tostring/fromstring methods in array.array and base64 modules > * Removed collections aliases to ABC classes > * Removed fractions.gcd() function (which is similar to math.gcd()) > * Remove "U" mode of open(): having to use io.open() just for Python 2 > makes the code uglier > * Removed old plistlib API: 2.7 doesn't have the new API > >> Basically it isn't easy to discuss the things you want to revert here, >> especially since you grouped them all together. Are you planning to start >> separate conversations on the (I think) 5 things you want to change? > > It's not only about specific changes, but more a discussion about a > general policy to decide if a deprecated feature should stay until > 3.10, or if it's ok to remove it in 3.9.
Given that we’ve changed the release cadence to one major release per year, it doesn’t seem that much of a burden to revert and carry these changes forward into Python 3.10. And if it helps with the migration off of Python 2.7, then +1 from me. -Barry
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