On Mon, 12 Aug 2013 14:22:01 -0700 Eli Bendersky <eli...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 12:22 PM, Brett Cannon <br...@python.org> wrote: > > > At the PyCon CA sprint someone discovered the formatter module had > > somewhat low code coverage. We discovered this is because it's tested by > > test_sundry, i.e. it's tested by importing it and that's it. > > > > We then realized that it isn't really used by anyone (pydoc uses it but it > > should have been using textwrap). Looking at the history of the module it > > has just been a magnet for cleanup revisions and not actual usage or > > development since Guido added it back in 1995. > > > > I have created http://bugs.python.org/issue18716 to deprecate the > > formatter module for removal in Python 3.6 unless someone convinces me > > otherwise that deprecation and removal is the wrong move. > > > > I wish we had a way to collect real-world usage on such things. I tried a > couple of code search engines, but this one is difficult to unravel because > many Python packages have their own formatter module (for example Django, > pygments) that probably does something different.
"Ohloh code search" shows a couple matches for AbstractFormatter in Python projects: http://code.ohloh.net/search?s=%22AbstractFormatter%22&pp=0&fl=Python&mp=1&ml=1&me=1&md=1&ff=1&filterChecked=true _______________________________________________ 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
