On Sat, Mar 24, 2012 at 13:53, Lennart Regebro <rege...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 10:51, Eli Bendersky <eli...@gmail.com> wrote: >> The PEP received mostly positive feedback. The only undecided point is >> where to specify that the package is provisional. Currently the PEP >> mandates to specify it in the documentation and in the docstring. >> Other suggestions were to put it in the code, either as a >> __provisional__ attribute on the module, or collect all such modules >> in a single sys.provisional list. > > I'm not sure what the usecase is for checking in code if a module is > provisional or not. It doesn't seem useful, and risks being > unmaintained, especially when the flag is on the module itself. >
Some usecases were given by Jim J. Jewett here: http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2012-February/116400.html (and +1-ed by a couple of others.) Eli _______________________________________________ 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
