On Sat, May 10, 2008 at 11:38 PM, Brett Cannon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I see three solutions for dealing with this. > > 1. Have stubs for the entire urllib API in urllib.__init__ that raise > a DeprecationWarning either specifying the new name or saying the > function/class is deprecated. > > 2. Rename urllib to urllib.fetch or urllib.old_request to get people > to move over to urllib.request (aka urllib2) at some point. >
I am probably missing something, because I don't see how this solution would solve the problem. The warning in urllib.__init__ will still be issued when people will import urllib.fetch (or urllib.fetch). -- Alexandre _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
